Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MANN and Camus: dead. Sartre: silent. Malraux: Minister of Culture. The old mullers and brooders, the old definers of crisis, are heard no more in the European novel. For a long time it seemed that there might be no successors. A surprise candidate has now emerged from the wings, an odd figure with a loser's accent and a bizarre past. His earlier books had astonishing power, using dwarfs and drums and scarecrows to explore the nightmare dominion of Nazi Germany and the guilt that followed. To many readers, particularly in the U.S., all this was fascinating. It also seemed...
...three years of proxy battles and within four weeks was to report the $35 million loss for 1969. Part of that deficit, though, was accounted for by the cancellation of 15 films in progress that Aubrey decided were poor box-office risks. He killed an adaptation of André Malraux's Man's Fate after $3,000,000 and three years out of the life of Director Fred Zinnemann had been invested in it. Under Aubrey's "streamlining" program, MGM's 183-acre Hollywood studio is now considered just real estate. Five out of every...