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The Radiance of the King

作者 Camara Laye
出版社 Ingram International Inc
商品描述 The Radiance of the King:AtthebeginningofthismasterpieceofAfricanliterature,Clarence,awhiteman,hasbeenshipwreckedonthecoastofAfrica.Flushwithself-importance,he

內容簡介

內容簡介 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 CAMARA LAYE (1928-1980) was born in Kouroussa, a large village on the river Niger in the French West African colony of Upper Guinea. The Camaras are one of the oldest clans of the Malinke people, and Camara Laye's father, a goldsmith, was a man of considerable local authority. The eldest of seven children, Camara spent his formative years in Koranic and French elementary schools before winning a scholarship to study automobile engineering in Argenteuil, outside Paris. His precocious first book, the autobiographical novel The Dark Child, was published in France in 1953 to great acclaim; it was followed a year later by his masterpiece, The Radianceof the King. In the late 1950s Camara Laye returned to Africa, where he worked in a variety of official capacities for the government of newly independent Guinea, only to be driven into exile because of his political outspokenness. Though his final years were overshadowed by illness and poverty, Camara Laye completed two additional major works: Dramouss, a continuation of The Dark Child, and The Guardian of the Word, a rendering into French of the great Malian epic Soundiata. TONI MORRISON is the author of nine novels, among them The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise. Born in Ohio and a graduate of Howard and Cornell, she was the Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton from 1989 to 2006. In 1993 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. JAMES KIRKUP (1918-2009) was a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.

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書名 / The Radiance of the King
作者 / Camara Laye
簡介 / The Radiance of the King:AtthebeginningofthismasterpieceofAfricanliterature,Clarence,awhiteman,hasbeenshipwreckedonthecoastofAfrica.Flushwithself-importance,he
出版社 / Ingram International Inc
ISBN13 / 9781590174555
ISBN10 /
EAN / 9781590174555
誠品26碼 /
裝訂 / P:平裝
重量(g) / 317.5
頁數 / 279
頁數 / 312
級別 / N:無
尺寸 / 20.4X13.0X1.8CM
語言 / 3:英文

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