Le regard du roi
Camara Laye · 1954
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About the book
"At the beginning of this book, a masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked and stranded on the coast of Africa. Brimful of 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 slowly stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold as a slave to the royal harem. 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 strange humanity in the alien figure of the king."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 1954
- Language
- English
- Series
- NYRB classics
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Editions
- 6
- Pages
- 279
- ISBN
- 9781590174555
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