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Matters of life and death.(Malraux: A Life)(Book Review)
Malraux: A Life, by Olivier Todd (Knopf, 560 pp., $35)
FEW men live the sort of life they imagine for themselves in the boldest daydreams of youth. Andre Malraux (1901-1976) was one of the few. Swashbuckling was his primary vocation; shouldering his way into the world's most perilous corners, loving the test of nerve, loving even more the general adulation for his feats of daring, he seemed to spend his days swinging from chandeliers with rapier in hand, after the Douglas Fairbanks manner. And of course he wrote, often about himself and men like him, the intimate companions of violent death. As one learns from Olivier Todd's fascinating biography, he was fond of ...
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- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Stafford, Andrew April 1, 2004 700+ words
...political figures such as Andre Malraux should be subjected to the crossover...with fruitful results, themes in Malraux's life and work not normally expected...would be not unfair to say that Malraux's novels and his post-war political...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Charles Trueheart November 25, 1996 700+ words
...France's culture minister, Malraux invented the system of state...cinema as to the alphabet." Malraux first became famous as a...doubt. "Loving neither life nor reality, which he judged to lack grandeur, Malraux felt not the slightest respect...
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- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Shorley, Chris April 1, 2006 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Quadrant Ryckmans, Pierre October 1, 1997 700+ words
I: Malraux in the Pantheon(1) This story is somewhat...one reservation: whenever the issue of Malraux crops up, the evidence hits me: I am...twenty years ago. In November 1976, when Malraux died, a weekly magazine in Paris invited...
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...had relatively little to say about Andre Malraux's account of the visual arts, as presented...des dieux. Literary critics who discuss Malraux's work as a novelist sometimes extend...central interest - have largely ignored Malraux. (1) In the Anglo-American sphere...
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- Magazine article from: New Criterion Pryce-Jones, David March 1, 2005 700+ words
...remained one all his life. His first adventure...naturally tried to send Malraux to prison for theft and...slogans they shout, Malraux's characters are cardboard...nothing to do with real life and real feelings, but...fact occurred. Nor had Malraux then visited China...
- Andre Malraux's grand adventure.(Literature)(Biography)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Anderson, Patricia May 1, 2007 700+ words
...was another, and so was Andre Malraux. But unlike Hemingway, who...eroded by self-loathing, Malraux fashioned himself into one he...Clara immersed themselves in the lives of the locals, and Malraux's instinct for justice...
- Andre Malraux: Politics and the Temptation of Myth.
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Heptonstall, Geoffrey October 1, 1995 700+ words
...desire to be king is foolish', said Malraux, `but everyone must seek a kingdom...vague ideals which had sustained the young Malraux. His novels, with titles like L'Espoir...narrative over impossible high-mindedness. Malraux lacked the discipline of a Communist...
Source: HighBeam Research, Matters of life and death.(Malraux: A Life)(Book Review)