Laye, Camara - Laye, Camara 1928–
Laye, Camara 1928–
Laye, a native of Guinea, is a novelist and short story writer writing in French. He is considered a leader in contemporary African literature.
In The Dark Child Camara Laye shows his understanding and respect for African traditions, and in The Radiance of the King he makes this tradition work on a stranger.
In The Dark Child Camara Laye shows the new spirit of French West Africans towards tradition. He did not consider his African childhood as something remote, primitive, something to be ashamed of. On the contrary: looking back on it from a distance, and having learned the technical skills European education had to offer, he discovered these skills had been animated, and had been more closely related to man, in his native civilisation….
[The Radiance of the King] is full of symbolism. It is usually considered as an ingenious allegory about man's search for God. But I think that the...
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