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...André Malraux (Man's Hope; Man's Fate), radical novelist, wrote one book (published in Switzerland as Les Noyers de l'Altembourg), lived with the Maquis and F.F.I., became a colonel. Wounded, captured, liberated in time's nick during the invasion, thin, nervy Malraux is now fighting at the front. ¶ Jean Cocteau, famed Surrealist specialist in films and plays, had trouble when collaborationists released rats and tear gas in the theater where one of his plays was put on; they also punched his nose when he refused to salute a pro-German parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Night | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

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