Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best piece of reporting that has come out of the Spanish Civil War. And as such it illustrates Malraux's theory of fiction-that the real news of the modern world can be better told in novels than in newspapers; that novelists, if they are to save their art from puerility, must fight for their beliefs, take part in events, and in lulls between the battles jot down their records of what they have actually seen...
...moving that the book immediately took its place with the best of post-War fiction. In Man's Hope Malraux follows the same practice, but this time traces history in the making, convincingly dramatizes his theory that reporting by way of novels can result in works of art...
...China, he was soon in trouble. He had collected Khmer statuary which the authorities insisted should be turned over to the Government. Malraux refused, lost a suit in the lower courts but won an appeal when it was learned that the documents submitted in the case dealt not with art but with Malraux's connection with the Young Annam League...
...shek broke with his Communist allies in 1927, and the Chinese Revolution ended in a swirl of executions, betrayals, assassinations, Malraux left China for good, accompanied an archeological expedition through Persia and Afghanistan on his way back to France. The expedition picked up some important specimens of Greco-Buddhist art, gave Malraux his most tangible accomplishment in archeology. He had already begun to write, publishing The Conquerors at 27 and taking a job as editor of the de luxe editions of a French publishing house...
...which he said was the ancient home of the Queen of Sheba, but about which experts were noncommittal. A natural scholar, Malraux knows Spanish, English, German, Italian, Russian, as well as Sanskrit, Chinese and minor Oriental tongues, was working on a big book of esthetic theory, The Psychology of Art, when the Spanish Civil War broke...