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The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye. 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. The Radiance of the King. Laye Camara. New York Review Books, - Fiction - pages. 0 Reviews.  · The Radiance of the King (New York Review Books Classics) by Camara Laye, James Kirkup, Toni Morrison. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,

CAMARA LAYE () 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. In Camara Laye Le Regard du roi (The Radiance of the King), the novel considered by some critics to be Laye's best work, appeared. It describes a white man's journey through the jungle in quest of an audience with an African king, and interpretations of its meaning vary from the human search Read More. The Radiance of the King The Radiance of the King, by. Camara Laye.

His precocious first book, the autobiographical novel The Dark Child, was published in France in to great acclaim; it was followed a year later by his masterpiece, The Radiance of the King. In the late s 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. The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye. 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. The Radiance of the King (Le Regard du roi, ) is the second novel by Guinean writer Camara Laye. The novel tells the story of Clarence, a European man who, as he progresses through an African environment, is stripped of his Western ways.