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's first minister of culture, serving from 1959-69. In...
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 to him, he remains, somewhat paradoxically, an unappre...
Written by André Malraux in 1933, La Condition humaine, or Man's Fate is a novel about the failed communist revolution that took place in Shanghai in 1927, and the existential quandaries facing a diverse group of people associated with the...
ATTACK ON AMERICA FATE For some at Zablocki tragedy was a little too close By GREG J. BOROWSKI of the Journal Sentinel staff Saturday, September 15, 2001 One chaplain's daughter was headed to the World Trade Center when...
The Greeks had words for them. They were the Parcae: The Spinner, the Measurer, and the One with the Scissors, The three determined, predetermining sisters, Who reigned like the Queens of Taste over man's fate. Clotho would gather flax or tow or fleece And...
I’m beginning to feel that Norman Mailer might have made a strategic mistake in recent interviews plugging his new book on writing, The Spooky Art. A strategic mistake in conspicuously low-balling his life’s work, his achievements as opposed to his once-grand expectations of himself. He...
[La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate)] develops in a more explicit way the ideas implicit in Les Conquérants. La Condition Humaine is a much more ambitious and a more remarkable book than Les Conquérants. In the latter, Garine pretty well holds the spotlight, and there is an "I" who plays the role of Dr. Watson, deeply agitated by his hero's every utterance and standing by, indefatigably wide-eyed, while Garine receives portentous telegrams. He also plays the role of C...
