The African Child (Collins English Library Level 4)

Reference

Laye, Camara

English as a Second Language

Addison Wesley Longman ELT Division (a Pearson Education company)

"The first writer of genius to come out of Africa" - B.B.C. "An account of Camara Laye's boyhood experiences in an African tribe. It is remarkableeven a little astonishing -for its inside presentation of customs and formalities by a participant sensitive enough to feel and re-create their total impact. The African Child is memorable for the affection, honesty and intimacy that touch an African people into living warmth."The Times "Camara Laye's story is important for those who would understand a continent in turmoil. It is written in an austere, dignified prose charged with sincerity.' The Listener "A beautiful book... James Kirkup's translation could hardly be bettered. Camara Laye is an artist and has written a book which is a work of art." Times Literary Supplement

The African Child

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Dark Child

"The Dark Child" is a vivid and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Kouroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. Laye 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. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world. A passionate and deeply affecting record, "The Dark Child" is a classic of African literature.

The Penguin Group (SA) (Pty) Ltd

This informative book: The Dark Child by Camara Laye, is the Autobiography of an African Boy who was born in Kouroussa, in French Guinea, a country with an old civilization in which the ancient ritualistic society of the Malinke has remained alive. "The supernatural was a significant part of Camara Laye's life. Not only did his mother possess the powers od a witch, but his father's hut was often visited by a small black snake, te guiding spirit of his race."

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

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The Guardian of the Word: Kouma Lafolo Kouma (Aventura: The Vintage Library of Contemporary World Literature) (English and French Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Camara, Laye

Social Sciences

Vintage Books

The exiled Russian writer's personal recollections range from his early childhood years to his American migration in 1940

Radiance of the King

United States

Vintage

L'enfant Noir

Si dans L'Enfant noir l'écrivain guinéen s'imaginait ne penser qu'à lui, tracer les contours de sa " Haute-Guinée natale ", c'est pourtant un chant universel qui en est sorti. [...] Seul en Europe, détaché de sa famille, il se consolait avec les mots. Et le soir, la main tremblante, le coeur serré par la nostalgie, il devait retrouver sa terre natale, la clameur des forgerons provenant de l'atelier de son père, la voix rassurante d'un de ses oncles. Il retrouvait aussi ses camarades de jeu, ceux avec lesquels il passa la dure épreuve de la circoncision, décrite dans son récit. Il y avait l'Amour, sujet plus que tabou, avec la silhouette de sa bien-aimée Marie :  " Mon oncle nous laissait son phono et ses disques, et Marie et moi dansions. Nous dansions avec infiniment de retenue, mais il va de soi : ce n'est pas la coutume chez nous de s'enlacer ; on danse face à face, sans se toucher ; tout au plus se donne-t-on la main, et pas toujours. Dois-je ajouter que rien ne convenait mieux à notre timidité ? " Alain Mabanckou

L'Enfant Noir

French & European Pubns

LeRegard du Roi

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 unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world. A passionate and deeply affecting record, The Dark Child is a classic of African literature.

Arts & Literature

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

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

The Radiance of the King (New York Review Books Classics)

Literary

NYRB Classics

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