André Malraux

This book analyses Malraux's writing from his journalism in Indochina to his novels, art studies and (anti)memorialist essays. Cutting through the established dual biographical image of Malraux as a committed leftwinger and revolutionary novelist turned unconditional Gaullist and diehard anti-Communist at the Liberation, it makes a balanced assessment of Malraux as a non-ideological if elitist artist who shaped his public role as much as he shaped the existence of his heroes both novelistic and real.

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GEOFFERY T. HARRIS

Inhalt
Chronology - Preface - Acknowledgement - Abbreviations - André Malraux: 1901-45 and 1945-76 - From Literary Cubism to Polemics and Metaphysics - Les Conquirants - La Voie royale - La Condition humaine - Le Temps du mipris - L'Espoir - Les Noyers de l'Altenburg - Art's Precarious Timelessness - Le Miroir des limbes: an Exercise in Metamorphosis - Conclusion - Notes and References - Selected Bibliography - Index