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At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through an increasingly phantasmagoric landscape in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is gradually stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold to the royal harem as a slave. But in the end Clarence’s bewildering journey is the occasion of a revelation, as he discovers the image, both shameful and beautiful, of his own humanity in the alien splendor of the king
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CAMARA LAYE (1928-1980) was born in Guinea in 1924. He studied engineering in Paris, where he wrote his first book, The African Child, an autobiographical bildungsroman set in pre-colonial Africa. The sequel, A Dream of Africa, written twelve years later after he had returned to his native land, sees an Africa on the violent brink of independence. In 1979 The Guardian of the World, a collection of native songs and lore, was cited by the Académie Française—the same year Laye died in Senegal, where he had lived in exile for thirteen years.
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- PublisherNYRB Classics
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0940322587
- ISBN 13 9780940322585
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages279
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