Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shame! Was TIME or Mary Morris guilty of letting a dim-witted retoucher put a cigaret in Malraux's left hand (TIME...
...Malraux's photograph was not retouched. As any constant smoker could tell, Constant Smoker Malraux was about to light one cigaret from the butt of another...
...Hope the aviator Magnin explains that, while no revolutionist, he is drawn more closely to revolutionists when they suffer defeat. The observation is true of Malraux himself. At odds with the Communists after 1927, embodying severe criticisms of Comintern policy and tactics in Man's Fate and championing Trotsky, he swung around after Hitler seized power in Germany, wrote an anti-fascist novel, Days of Wrath, has been roundly denounced by Trotsky as a Stalinist agent. Learning to fly in 1934, he flew with his instructor over the Arabian Desert, discovered a ruined city which he said...
This week, while Man's Hope was being published in Manhattan, Malraux was celebrating his 37th birthday, living at the Hotel Ritz in Barcelona. He has been working with Cameraman Louis Page, who filmed Carnival in Flanders, directing a film of the Civil War, based in part on Man's Hope and intended largely for South American audiences. Now separated from his wife, Malraux still holds his publishing job, spends less time in Paris than ever, has few intimates outside a family circle consisting of himself, two halfbrothers, Claude and Roland, his stepmother...
...than anything they could write if they remained in ivory towers. But it is doubtful if this grim invitation had as much influence on them as Man's Hope will have. Whether the life of action would benefit all writers, there is no doubt that it has inspired Malraux, has given him a subject, a passion in expressing it, an imaginative intensity unmatched by any novelist of his generation...