The radiance of the king
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The radiance of the king
（New York review books classics）
The New York Review Books, 2001
- : pbk.
- Other Title
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Le regard du roi
Regard du roi
- Uniform Title
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Regard du roi
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"Copyright c1971 by The Macmillan Company. Introduction copyright c2001 by Toni Morrison"--T.p. verso
"Originally published in French as Le regard du roi by Librairie Plon in 1954. This translation originally published in Great Britain by William Collin's Foutana Books in 1965 and in the United States by The Macmillan Company in 1971. Reprinted by arrangement with Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., Librairie Plon, and James Kirkup"--T.p. verso
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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.
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