The ordeal of the Europeanized Maghrebi elites

Fouad Laroui is a multicultural author with a skill for handling words to make his novels masterpieces that are both burlesque and teeming with a multitude of disclosures about a society crying out for help. In his 2014 novel The Tribulations of the Last Sijilmassi, this Moroccan writer from the city of Oujda chooses to write about Adam, an engineer living a luxurious life, at least in appearance, who decides to return to his native fiefdom to enjoy the exquisites that the slow lifestyle disconnected from scientific innovations provided his forefathers. Nevertheless, will he manage to escape the thoughts that abound in his psychic interiority and the external parasites? Through this book, which provides a study of the key issues of Laroui's novel as well as an analytical reading of several fragments from the latter, readers will be able to penetrate the mysteries of the novelistic enterprise maintained by this writer.