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The Focus Student Editions are designed for French language courses in literature and culture. Prepared with non-native French speakers in mind, these editions include an introduction (in French), the complete work, and linguistic and cultural notes in French, a current bibliography and study questions. A masterwork of modern francophone African literature, L'enfant noir has the artistry of a novel and the authenticity of an autobiography. Thi...

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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. B...

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"Je ne pensais qu'à moi-même et puis, à mesure que j'écrivais, je me suis aperçu que je traçais un portrait de ma Haute-Guinée natale." Au-delà du récit autobiographique d'un jeune écrivain de 25 ans, "L'enfant noir" nous restitue, dans toute sa vérité, la vie quotidienne, les traditions et les coutumes de tout un peuple.

The Dark Child "is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded Africa's preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-80) herein marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this uniqu...