Charles de Gaulle, his career as minister of information and, later, minister for cultural affairs, his encounters with Nehru, Mao, Senghor and Picasso, and so forth.
Second, Malraux, who was an original and profound thinker, did not develop his ideas into a philosophical system. His writings defy conventional classifications, as the prefix in his title Antimémoires (1967; translated as Antimemoirs, 1968) clearly indicates, and, in addition to composing novels and essays, he contributed to a revival of such neglected genres as the preface, the epigram, the funeral oration, and the political speech. Most of the labels attached to him at differing stages in his career--cubist/surrealist, écrivain engagé (committed writer), art historian--are clearly inadequate and merely heighten the confusion. Like one of his mentors, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he preferred the aphorism, the epigram, and the essay to the logically coherent arguments of traditional Western philosophy, and his distrust of Cartesian reason was counterbalanced by an unrelenting appeal to lucidity, the cardinal Malraux virtue.
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