French writer and politician André Malraux (1901-1976) was generally regarded as one of the most distinguished novelists of the 20th century. Malraux holds the distinction of having been France...
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André Malraux is one of the most misunderstood French writers of the twentieth century, both in his native land and in much of the English-speaking world. Despite numerous publications devoted ...
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Critical Essay by Leon Trotsky
Everything [in The Conquerors]—its dense and beautiful style, the keen eye of the artist, the original and daring observations—contributes to making this ...
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Critical Essay by W. M. Frohock
[André Malraux] is often called a "tragic humanist," because in novels like Man's Fate, in particular, he was obsessed with the inherent tr...
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Critical Essay by R. J. North
[All Malraux's] novels, with the possible exception of La Voie royale, are set in contemporary history, telling of revolution and war. Malraux seems to rival the ...
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Critical Essay by William Cloonan
André Malraux wrote about men and places. The men were larger than life and the places distant. Women scarcely figured in his books, and when they did they fu...
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Critical Essay by Claude-edmonde Magny
Behind the many masks of eroticism and heroism—whether he seems momentarily to express Communist or Gaullist ideology, whether he chooses the novel or th...
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Critical Essay by T. Jefferson Kline
[Malraux] has founded the Human in a rigorous geometry of differences. Whereas animals appear to ignore their impending death or to accept it as part of a larger ...
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In the following essay, Langlois discusses the publication of the post-World War I French avant-garde magazine Action and its influence on the political writings of André Malraux.
In the autum...
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Madeleine Malraux has survived two world wars, two husbands and
eight unpredictable decades on her way to becoming a world-renowned
pianist.
So it was business as usual when the 93-year-ol...
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Nov 17 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to
have occurred on November 23 since 1900: 1961 - The Dominican Republic changed the name of its
capital from Ciudad Trujillo to Santo Do...
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