Andr Malraux: A Reassessment [Hardcover]

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.Chronology - Preface - Acknowledgement - Abbreviations - Andr? 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

'...both the reader who has some familiarity with the work of this extraordinary writer and the specialist will find much of value here in terms of methodical, scholarly erudition and sensible, illuminating analyses.' - Peter Tame, Queen's University Belfast

GEOFFERY T. HARRIS