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...cancer; in Washington Depot, Conn. In his 35 years with the magazine, Bobby Baker covered areas ranging from national and foreign affairs to art and architecture. But his deep love of literature produced some of his most memorable writing, including cover stories on Robert Frost (1950) and André Malraux (1955), and an essay on the state of American poetry...
...extraordinary gathering, if only for the new talent on display. Andre Malraux, Boris Pasternak, Andre Gide, Bertolt Brecht--all had come together at the International Writers' Congress for the Defense of Culture in Paris during June of 1935, to protect the rise of fascism in Europe. These were the so-called "engaged writers," men and women who believed that art and politics go hand in hand, that one cannot exist without the other. In the fact of Hitler's spreading madness, they held rallies, made speeches, organized...
...scrupulously objective and un-engaged throughout The Left Bank Aside from an occasional snide remarks--for example, writing about rightist author Pierre Drieu La Rochelle: "Drieu's biography reads like fiction, which is why it can be preferred to his own books" and an at times unflattering portrait of Malraux Lottman refuses to editorialize. Instead, he paints a marvelously detailed picture of the writers and artists of Paris's Left Bank, their milieu and the confused, often ambiguous way they dealt with the events of their time...
More damning was a paragraph in which Jones described an old blind man "chanting the Ramayana, a part of Cambodia's cultural heritage, as he twanged a primitive guitar." Cockburn produced an almost identical passage from André Malraux's novel about his Cambodian travels in 1923 and 1924, La Voie Royale. Reckoned the Voice writer...
...when Malraux heard him . . . the singer must be quite marvelously venerable...