The Royal Way (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Andre Malraux
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: The 1920’s
- Setting: French Somaliland, French Indochina, and Siam
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Friendship, 1920’s, Death or dying, Fate or fatalism, Southeast Asia, Archaeology or archaeologists, Indochina, Isolation
- Locales: Indochina, Siam, Somaliland
Characters Discussed
Claude Vannec (klohd vah- NEHK), an ambitious young archaeologist. He sets out to explore the Royal Way in the jungles of Cambodia and to profit professionally and financially from his discoveries. Intense, impatient, and in revolt against the banality and conformity of bourgeois existence, Claude is also intent on affirming his own manhood on the journey. Obsessed with nonconformist, virile men, whom he wishes to emulate, Claude meditates on his father and grandfather and is drawn to Perken, whom he meets in a Djibouti brothel. It is Perken who shapes...
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