Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anti-Memoirs, Malraux...
...drama and his flair for improvisation. A chronic under-rehearser who rarely directed any piece the same way twice, Munch was happiest with the music of the 19th century French Romantics, to which he brought a poetic vibrance of color and texture. Last year French Cultural Minister André Malraux hired him out of retirement to lead the newly formed Orchestre de Paris, and though his health was failing, Munch was determined to be on the podium for the orchestra's first American tour this fall. "My heart may suffer," he said, "but music never...
...delegate to Moscow convocations of the faithful and an exile from Mussolini's Italy. In 1930, he settled in Switzerland, and stayed for 14 years, writing novels. His best was Bread and Wine (1937), the story of an idealist's struggle against Mussolini. It ranks with Malraux's Man's Fate and Koestler's Darkness at Noon as an expression of the moral ambiguity that seizes men of principle and sensitivity who enter politics...
...ordeal by orgasm before he can act decisively; in Bonnie and Clyde, the woman takes bank robbery and murder in her stride while the man battles paralysis (this is not to say that Bonnie is crudely portrayed). Man must prove himself against the external and feminine. The hero of Malraux's La Voie Royale is driven to conquer nameless woman after nameless woman. The vision of writing that emerges from all this is somewhat masturbatory--the emphasis is not on understanding or even communication but on the need to dominate an outside implacability, like sleeping with a whore. Here again...
...selection of Kawabata, an author little known to Western readers, surprised those expecting the choice of more voguish Western writers such as Gunter Grass or Andre Malraux...