Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cover) MAN'S HOPE-André Malraux-Random House...
...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...
...fates of some 20 leading characters who fight in it. It combines vivid journalistic observation with extraordinary imaginative flights, consequently stands out, not only as a novel but as the 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...
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...
...Fate Andre Malraux told the fearful story of a few days in Shanghai that shook the Eastern world-the period in the fall of 1927 when Chiang Kai-shek broke with his Communist allies and the Chinese revolution ended in a swirl of arrests, assassinations, executions, torture. Malraux's account was fiction, but to Occidental readers it seemed far more real than the wild and contradictory newspaper reports of what happened to the remnants of the Chinese Communists...