Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambrose Bierce's tales of the U. S. Civil War. It is a harsh, unsparing book. The fascists who crowd its pages are brutal, the revolutionists fanatical, the peasants stupid, the intellectuals timidly ineffectual or suicidally brave. Writing with deceptive simplicity, sometimes introducing real people like Andre Malraux, Nogales occasionally hits a strange note of lyric violence: "In the morning light a bomb thrown from an airplane leaves behind a pretty, luminous wake. The tuning fork of space vibrates on being struck...
Though many a present-day author incites to political action, few have practised what they preach. One of the few is André Malraux (Man's Fate); Ralph Bates is another. Frenchman Malraux served on a revolutionary committee in the abortive Communist rising in Canton (1927), lived to tell the tale. Britisher Bates's first two books (Lean Men, The Olive Fields; were laid in Spain, where last July he joined the Loyalists to fight against Franco. Perhaps because these writers are not simply men of words but of deeds, the stones they write seem as direct...
...accordance with the requests of the donors, the fund will be given over to the Spaniards to buy medical supplies. Earlier this year another, larger sum was collected for the Loyalists when Fischer and Malraux spoke before the Teachers Union on conditions in Spain. The sum collected then was about...
...Andre Malraux, 1933 Concourt Prize winner with his novel, "Man's Fate" and Louis Fischer, Madrid correspondent for the "Nation," both directly from Spain, are the two speakers...
Both these men are especially qualified to speak about Spanish conditions as they have played an important part in opposing the revolution. Malraux was formerly the head of the Aviation Division of the International Brigade, a Loyalist organization...