Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, and so intermixed is it with the events of his times that no adequate accounting could be contained within one book. Accordingly, when it was announced that Malraux would write the first volume in a projected autobiographical series, it was possible to wonder just which Malraux the author liked best...
...almost mythical liberal of the 1930s and a famous novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), he helped organize and then commanded the brave, ramshackle Republican air force that flew against Franco's armies in the Spanish Civil War. Finally, if the author felt inclined to autumnal apologia, he could start by revealing himself in his current incarnation as De Gaulle's Minister of Culture: the man who gave Paris a long-needed face washing, planted a copy of the Venus de Milo in the Paris Métro and, lately, helped the General resolve last...
Flights of Rhetoric. A private account about any or all of these gifted Malrauxs would have been fascinating. But, as curious readers of Anti-Memoirs soon find, the author, now 67, has loftily decided to leave nearly all of his personal chronology out of his autobiography. ("Almost all the writers I know love their childhood," he writes, thus disposing of all that. "I hate mine.") What he offers instead is an odd, episodic mixture of action and reflection, frequently obfuscated by Malraux's fondness for flights of impenetrable Gallic rhetoric. The book includes part of an early novel, some...
...disappointing, Anti-Memoirs is a remarkable cultural confection, especially for readers armed with some prior knowledge of Malraux and France, not to mention a tolerance for offhand allusions to everything from Vishnu to Vichy water. Its most accessible elements are brief recollections of personal danger, each spiced with the author's sense of fate and history. Such incidents were chosen because they brought Malraux, the man of action, face to face with death-and the limitations of human courage-just as his lifetime has brought him face to face with the limitations of the revolutionary aims that he pursued...
...head, rub his back, scratch his ears, and everybody'll feel a little better," he writes of one player. At other times, Coach leads his bulls in song. All very sincere, all very calculated. What makes the diary interesting is that the author knows exactly what is being done to him, chooses it, and even in some twisted way enjoys it. He describes Lombardi as primarily a child psychologist; but perhaps athletes have to become as little children to win championships. For instance, one of the Packers, age 33, finds himself concealing an ice-cream cone behind his back...