The Temper, Magyd Cherfi

"If you don't have money, you're not from here": we expected him to address immigration, but Magyd Cherfi returns via social division. In eight short, lively, and tender tales, blending a sense of festive rhythm with an acuity that leads to melancholy, the former Zebda lyricist confronts the traps of national identity and confiscated horizons.
The paradoxes and excesses of maternal love that excludes and paralyzes instead of emancipating, the small death of illusions, the boomerang effects of engaged rock'n'roll, the violence of wasteland initiation rites, the unfulfilled dreams of sensuality – each text is an attempt to invent the unprecedented language and vocabulary of unspoken, too long repressed feelings.
And it is solely through the power of words that Cherfi feints and strikes and shatters into raw literature the sustained impotences and the relentless pursuit of a destiny that always sends him back "among the defeated, the dark, the flattened, my own" – without ever bending, and without ever whimpering.

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