Inevitably, things go wrong in Barcelona and, inevitably, they involve sex and his temper, resulting in deportation for five years.īack home, he does marry the unnamed narrator’s unnamed mother and proves to be a particularly unpleasant husband. He had to work hard for two years to afford a wedding but he did, but he still needed money, so off he went to Barcelona. Though he was only sixteen and had no money, he persuaded his parents to make a proposal and, to their surprise, he was accepted. However, at a wedding he saw a woman who took his fancy and she seemed purer than pure. Of course, while other women were whores, his sisters must be purer than pure and when one of them attracted some attention from men, he beat her up. He did manage to get another job as an apprentice to a building worker and spent his money chasing girls. When he was confronted by his father, he hit him, a completely unacceptable form of behaviour. His father’s friend, Moussa, gave him a job helping Moussa’s sons in the building trade, but he fought with them.
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His professional career was no more of a success. When he realised that she was not being faithful to him, he realised that he wanted a woman who would be true only to him. He fell in love (at age thirteen) with his cousin Fatma, a woman of decidedly loose morals. He demanded money from his mother, which she struggled to provide. Now that he was not going to be a doctor, as his father hoped, he continued to behave badly. When his father heard of both his failure and his truancy, he beat him so hard, he fell into a prickly pear plant and was covered in thorns. This led to the next major traumatic event. When it came to the key exam to enable him to move to the next stage, he was unable to even vaguely cope so he just drew all over the paper. As a result, he decided to stop going to school, and played truant. Things got worse when he went to school, as the teacher beat the children for any transgression and Mimoun had many. Mimoun was always having tantrums though his father tried to beat it out of him, realising that the child was spoiled. Another brother was born later (with, by tradition, the same name as the deceased older brother) but Mimoun was older by then and did not mind so much. The baby died but Mimoun was not suspected. He was not happy with this so one day, when his mother thought he was playing outside, he took a pillow and smothered the baby. However, his spoiling ended when his younger brother was born. His mother always said that this had a profound effect on the boy. He had various traumatic moments in his life but the first was being hit by his father, aged six months, because he was bawling and his father could not stand it. As the only boy (at that time), he was spoiled by his mother and sisters, though not by his father. He was the fourth child but first son of his parents, having three older sisters. He is not a historical character but a (more or less) contemporary one.
The eponymous Last Patriarch is Mimoun Driouch and this is his story, as told by his daughter. Home » Catalonia » Najat El Hachmi » L’últim patriarca (The Last Patriarch) Najat El Hachmi: L’últim patriarca (The Last Patriarch)
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