Word: angkor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among archeologists, Indo-China is famous for its immense, moldering, bat-infested ruins of Khmer civilization, of which Angkor Wat is the best known. Among economists, Indo-China is equally famous as one of the world's worst-run colonies. For a year young Malraux dug through ruins, crawled over fallen temples which reeked with the decayed jungle vegetation of eight centuries, collected Khmer statuary, then abruptly lost interest in Indo-China's past, became interested in Indo-China's present. Working with a group known as the Young Annam League, which fought for dominion status...
...dominant note in his poetry is loneliness and isolation, sometimes symbolized by thought of distant places, the winds blowing over the plains of Siberia or Montana, sometimes by thoughts of Angkor Wat, "the lost cities, deep in the dead dark, no thought, no memory," sometimes by evocations of the end of history, when only birds will "sob for the time of man," sometimes by a vision of utter desolation...
...BALI AND ANGKOR-Geoffrey Gorer- Little, Brown...
...Bali and Angkor Author Gorer's forthright denunciations of some of the abuses of Far Eastern Imperialism make spirited reading. But his latent mysticism, barely called into being in Africa, flowered under the influence of the gentle Balinese, the witches of Java, the monstrous ruins of Angkor Wat. Hence the book is less one of description of far places than an exposition of the author's theories of the nature of the mystical experience, its social and spiritual significance...
...ruins of jungle-covered Angkor, lost from the 15th to the 19th Century, impressed him deeply, inspired him to serious study of their artistic achievements, their magnificent, detailed bas-reliefs and sculptured towers. The central buildings of Angkor Wat, a mile square, rising almost as high as the tower of Notre Dame in Paris and built about the same time, he decided must be one of the loveliest pieces of architecture in the world, the most perfect building, except for Christopher Wren's Greenwich Hospital, that he had ever seen...