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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 to him, he remains, somewhat paradoxically, an unappreciated and often maligned author. Eulogized in the most extravagant terms by his admirers ("the last Renaissance man," "the intellectual as man of action"), denounced in a most vehement manner by his detractors ("a mythomaniac," "the only authentic French fascist"), he is an enigmatic, elusive, contradictory figure. There are many reasons for this.
First, as was the case with many of his contemporaries, particularly T. E. Lawrence, who intrigued Malraux to the utmost degree, his real significance, his originality, and his genius have been obscured by the legend surrounding his personal and political life: his adventures in Indo-china, Yemen, Persia, and other parts of Asia, his polemic with the exiled Trotsky, his many anti-Fascist activities throughout the 1930s, his leadership of the Escadrille España and the Escadrille André Malraux during the first seven months of the Spanish civil war, his roles in the Resistance, his political volte-face in 1946, his special relationship with Gen.
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