“Playing the game”, Fatima Daas

Fatima Daas had become known a few years ago with The little last (Black on white, 2020), the autobiographical monologue of a Frenchwoman of Algerian origin, practicing Muslim and lesbian. Nevertheless, Play the game Tell the story of Kayden, a medium level student who likes to write. Furthermore, In her high school in the Paris suburbs. her literature teacher is attached to her, believing that she would have the potential to integrate a “big school”. Seeming to be mistaken about her intentions, Kayden, vaguely in love with her, agrees to “play the game”. But the failure of this borrowed school dream will feed its anger. that of having been, she believes, manipulated by her teacher. The key: Byzantine. slang discussions with her classmates, extracted from her notebooks in which she flatly expresses her desires and her frustrations. Of a deep boredom. this “playing game”, fatima daas second novel by Fatima Daas, story of a homeopathic “grip”, is a social “drama” without real tension, as childish as epidermal.

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