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According to a letter quoted by Old Rivera Fan Bertram D. Wolfe, who introduces her to the smart world in this month's Vogue, she never knew she was a Surrealist until Old Surrealist André Breton came to Mexico and told her so. In a note on her exhibition last week at the Julien Levy Gallery, Surrealist Breton expanded in precious French, ending by describing her painting as "a ribbon around a bomb...
Frida Rivera's esteem for her house guest, Exile Leon Trotsky, antedates but probably does not surpass André Breton's. From Mexico last summer Poet Breton and Painter Diego Rivera issued a furious manifesto, calling on all independent revolutionary intellectuals, "whose voice is drowned by the odious tumult of the regimented falsifiers," to form a world-wide union against the oppression of art by any political regime, especially the Stalinist...
...recapture such violent moments of the Spanish Civil War, and to suggest their meaning, is the task of André Malraux in Man's Hope. His fifth novel, it establishes more plainly than ever that Malraux is the world's foremost novelist of revolution and one of the most exciting and provocative of living writers. Unlike most modern novels, Man's Hope was written on the scene of action, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, describes real characters and events that actually occurred. And unlike most modern novelists, André Malraux is also...
Background. When André Malraux met Ernest Hemingway in Spain (so the story goes), they divided the Spanish Civil War between them. Malraux took the story up to the Loyalist victory at Guadalajara, Hemingway after it. From the Loyalist as well as the literary viewpoint, it looks as if Malraux got the better part. For while Hemingway's section (not yet published) is to deal with the clash of the two organized armies. Malraux's, covering the early period, is a swift, tumultuous affair of assaults on barracks, street-fighting, bombing, sniping, chaos, breakneck confusion, which somehow resolves...
...Author. Volatile, restless, sharp-eyed, thin-featured, André Malraux is known slightly by many people, well by very few. He talks a great deal, and very rapidly, smokes constantly, is disturbed by a facial tic which stayed with him after illness in China. Gloomily handsome, mildly sardonic, he enjoys the companionship of pretty women. Born in Paris on November 3, 1901, of well-to-do parents, he went to five schools as War drove his family in and out of the city, graduated from the famed Lycée Condorcet, which schooled Proust, then studied Sanskrit at the Paris...