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Died. André Malraux, 75, modern-day Renaissance man whose accomplishments included writing, archaeology, soldiering and serving as French Minister of Culture (see THE WORLD...
...alone with the masses, waiting," confided Mao Tse-tung to Andre Malraux...
...brigade of intellectuals, including Ernest Hemingway, André Malraux, Arthur Koestler and George Orwell, had their lives and work shaped irrevocably by their experiences in Spain. "As a militiaman," George Orwell later wrote in Homage to Catalonia, "one was a soldier against Franco, but one was also a pawn in an enormous struggle that was being fought out between political theories." Albert Camus observed afterwards: "It was in Spain that men learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this...
...works eight or nine hours a day on Volume III of his Metamorphoses of the Gods, and spends his rare moments of rest strolling through his elegant garden in Verrieres-le-Buisson with his two cats, named Fourrure (fur) and Essuie-plume (penwiper). Still French Polymath Andre Malraux, 73, took time out to visit the Louvre for a television tribute to Michelangelo in honor of the 500th anniversary of the artist's birth. "Michelangelo invented the hero type. It had not existed before him, and he certainly did not discover it in antiquity, where it does not exist either...
...long enough been acquainted with your eminence in the belletristic sphere," Andre Malraux writes him in English. "Now we are overturned to un cover you as a painterly ace ..." This is Perelman at his best, inspired by the pompous, the fake and tawdry, and hell bent for leatherette...