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‘The Ridiculous Age’ by Maryam Madjidi: Neighborhood Girl Gets Dizzy with the Social Elevator

Summary by El Pais
Maryam Madjidi was six years old when her family left Tehran and initially settled in a Parisian banlieue and then settled in Drancy, 15 kilometers from the capital. Daughter of communist parents, her passage into adult life was marked by that exile, the absence of Persian referents and the eagerness to become such a white and Parisian girl as she saw smoking in the center. If the erasure of identity in her childhood was fictionalized in Marx an…

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‘The Ridiculous Age’ by Maryam Madjidi: Neighborhood Girl Gets Dizzy with the Social Elevator

Maryam Madjidi was six years old when her family left Tehran and initially settled in a Parisian banlieue and then settled in Drancy, 15 kilometers from the capital. Daughter of communist parents, her passage into adult life was marked by that exile, the absence of Persian referents and the eagerness to become such a white and Parisian girl as she saw smoking in the center. If the erasure of identity in her childhood was fictionalized in Marx an…

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Tuesday, March 24, 2026.
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