Word: actuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life." In the political arena, Malraux receives fewer encomiums, least of all from the young. University students today read Man's Fate, Malraux's prizewinning novel, almost as eagerly as they do Sartre's Nausea and Camus' The Stranger. "But he simply isn't actuel, timely today," says Marc Bianciardi, a young French literature teacher. "Malraux was the front-rank leader of our dreams," explains Pierre Rousset, a leader in the May 1968 uprisings in Paris. "But alas! He chose De Gaulle, chose to side with the bourgeois state against the revolutionaries...
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