Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book is published by the respected Paris house of Gallimard, dedicated to Minister of Culture Andre Malraux, endorsed enthusiastically by Picasso. The typography is meticulous, the illustrations lavish. And the subject is a man who never was, Painter Jusep Torres Campalans...
André Malraux has gone so far as to suggest that Phaedra is not a tragedy at all. He calls it "a modern play, a drama of sexuality...
...Gislebertus: Sculpteur d'Autun; Trianon Press), and an exhibition of photographs of his sculpture let the public see clearly details that in the Autun church are set too high or lit too dimly for close inspection. The French were obviously delighted by their new celebrity. Culture Minister Andre Malraux pronounced Gislebertus "a Romanesque Cézanne...
...real rendezvous is with the calendar. He is interesting because he is dated in ways that link him with Hemingway's generation of writers-Malraux, Koestler and Vailland himself. The Hemingway hero is a romantic, but he prides himself on being a guardian of fact, a realistic reporter. Says Duc: "I try not to make things up." He thinks of life as a campaign in which he has won certain medals, all of which he insists on explaining. Duc has been decorated for being in and out of Communism (like Author Vailland), in the French underground...
...Malraux finally recognized the limits of the cult of experience when he defined the writer's task as that of "converting as wide a range of experience as possible into conscious thought." With Hemingway himself, and disciples such as Vailland, the young man's quest has become the old man's folly of endlessly pursuing experience for the mere sake of experience...