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...Metamorphosis of the Gods, by Andre Malraux. To Malraux, art is religion, and to support this view, he produces flights of brilliant speculation that course throughout all of art history; if he does not persuade the reader to worship, at least he helps...
...seemed a splendid idea to France's Minister of State for Cultural Affairs, Author André Malraux, to have the state pay retirement pensions for legitimate writers. Accordingly, Malraux went before France's National Assembly, asked for a 1961 pension budget of $106,800. To determine who in France is really an author, Malraux applied the social security definition that a writer is one drawing at least 51% of his income from author's rights. To his dismay, Malraux found French letters in a sad state. Only 150 writers in all France qualified under the definition...
...manifesto, published two months ago, affirmed the right of Frenchmen to refuse to cooperate in the prosecution of the six-year-old war in Algeria. Among the signers of the manifesto were Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Francois Sagan, and Florence Malraux, daughter of author Andre Malraux, who is Minister of Culture under de Gaulie...
...Malraux thus is open to attack from two sides. The art-for-art's-sake partisans are impatient with such metaphysical preoccupations, and argue that a well-painted apple is its own excuse for being. The religiously orthodox argue that the apple, no matter how well painted, has nothing to do with the case; art cannot solve what Malraux himself describes as "the problem set [man] by the spark of eternity latent in his being...
...most readers, however, the important fact will be that few critics can find as much as Malraux in the picture of an apple-or of gods and men. It is doubtful that he can help his readers find a substitute for God; it is certain that he can help them...