by Fouad Laroui, Laure Humeau-Sermage · FLAMMARION · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080722393
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«L'oued et le Consul et Autres Nouvelles» is Fouad Laroui's short story collection, in paperback (Flammarion, 123 pages).
It brings together eleven stories about the Morocco of the author's childhood; in the title story, a Finnish consul ignores the Berbers' warnings and ventures with his wife into a dry river. Laroui combines humor and satire of cultural clash; the edition adds a study and a dossier on the short story and otherness.
Laure Humeau-Sermage writes the study and the dossier; the book belongs to the Étonnants Classiques collection and includes the complete text.
Aimed at secondary and high school students working on the short story genre and the theme of otherness in French class.
Fouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he studied engineering. After working shortly for the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, the Prix Jean-Giono and the Grande Médaille de la littérature de l'Académie française.
