Title: Le regard du roi
First published: 1954
Description: "At the beginning of this book, a masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked and stranded on the coast of Africa. Brimful of 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 slowly stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold as a slave to the royal harem.

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 strange humanity in the alien figure of the king."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Africa, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--fiction, Pq3989.c27 r413 2001, 843/.914
Places: Guinea, Africa
LC classification: PQ3989.C27 R4x 1975