L'Enfant noir

The Focus Student Editions are designed for French language courses in literature and culture. Prepared with non-native French speakers in mind, these editions include an introduction (in French), the complete work, and linguistic and cultural notes in French, a current bibliography and study questions. This Focus student edition is a novel published in 1953 by Camara Laye, an African writer born in Guinea and is an autobiographical story which narrates in first person a journey from childhood in Kouroussa, through challenges in Conakry, to France.

Myrna Bell Rochester (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles) has taught at UCLA and at Stanford University. She is the co-author of college textbooks and educational materials, including several annotated texts in French literature for Focus Publishing. Natalie Schorr teaches at Phillips Academy, Andover, where she has served as chair of the language division. She received a diplome d’etudes superieures, mention bien, from L’Université d’Aix-Marseille and served as lectrice at L’Ecole Normale Superieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses.