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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...
...Gaulle's approach to culture-involving the careful engineering of a creative resurgence-was entrusted to Andre Malraux, Western Europe's only Minister of Culture. Malraux's greatest achievements have been largely those of a museum curator-the staging of highly .successful retrospectives (Picasso and Vermeer), the lending of treasures abroad, the sandblasting of Paris' soot-stained architecture. Beyond that, he sought to dot the French provinces with Maisons de la Culture, designed to bring theater and art to outlying cities and towns. While the idea was not without merit, many of the theatrical directors Malraux...
...patch of green moldlike substance was discovered in a section called the Hall of Bulls (named for the lO-ft.-high creatures on its walls). The patch spread rapidly, and similar growths began to crop up elsewhere. This mysterious maladie verte so distressed French Cultural Affairs Minister André Malraux, an amateur archaeologist himself, that he appointed a commission of archaeologists, speleologists and other savants to save France's "prehistoric Sistine Chapel...
...panoply of the inaugural could not conceal the anxieties and tensions that gnaw at the Gaullist party. Arriving late at the Elysée, Michel Debré, one of De Gaulle's most loyal ministers, seemed agitated. Former Culture Minister Andre Malraux, the ideologue of Gaullism, also seemed nervous, bringing his left hand to his mouth as if to bite his nails. Outgoing Premier Maurice Couve de Murville looked even more icy and dour than usual. The old Gaullist veterans remember all too well that in 1953, the last time De Gaulle huffily retired from French politics, the party...