Rereading Camara Laye
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: January 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780803227521
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French Literature; Literary Criticism; French; African; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Criticism and interpretation; European - French; Camara, Laye
Description: "Adele King met Camara Laye in 1978, two years before his death, and in 1980 published the principal study about him, The Writings of Camara Laye. In 1991 King set out to disprove rumors that Laye was not the author of one of his novels, Le Regard du roi. Instead she became convinced that the rumors were true and in the process unexpectedly discovered a far more interesting story about the creation of Laye as an author and public figure. Rereading Camara Laye describes King's research, which has taken more than ten years. Her inquiry involved finding those who knew Laye in Paris in the 1950s and interviewing them when possible as well as examining documents in libraries and archives in France and Belgium."--Jacket.