Word: malraux
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...been plenty to read about China and Chiang Kai-shek in the past. But much of it has come via leftist pipelines. Typical are books like Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China (TIME, Jan. 10, 1938) ; Agnes Smedley's China's Red Army Marches; Andpe Malraux's Man's Fate, in which Chiang's officers are shown parboiling live Communists in a locomotive boiler. Some of these writers have suggested that China's Red Army, by superior organization, popularity, and whirlwind guerrilla tactics, has been the major factor in keeping the Japanese...
...André Malraux (Man's Fate), who served with a French tank division, was wounded on June 16, 1940, later captured. He managed to escape from a Nazi prison camp, found himself in occupied France, for some time was unable to get out. Now Novelist Malraux is living at Hyeres on the Riviera, writing "the most important novel of my career...
...that had lately been France, people began to wonder what victims were in the ruins. They wondered first about trapped U. S. citizens, trapped British subjects, French politicians, generals, diplomats, finally got around to wondering about French writers. In particular, they wondered what had become of Aviator-Novelists Andre Malraux, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Surrealist Novelist Louis Aragon, Dadaist Cut-up Jean Cocteau. Thanks to the human dislocation, the censorship, the splitting of France into occupied and unoccupied areas, it was almost impossible to find...
...Louis Aragon (Bells of Basel), like Andre Malraux, served in a tank division. His corps was cut off in, Flanders, surrounded. From the beach at Dunkirk, Aragon escaped to England. Two days later he somehow made his way back to France, to the troops still fighting on the Seine and the Loire. Day before the armistice, the Nazis captured him, put him in a prison camp. Like Malraux, he escaped (with 30 others). His hair turned white. Now living at the village of Varetz, south of Limoges, in unoccupied France, Aragon is writing poetry, a novel (non-political). Aragon wrote...
Once the Nazis get steamrolling down the Lowlands, the narrative picks up; by the time Dunkirk is evacuated, history supplies its pity and terror. A Tolstoy, or even a Malraux. might illuminate such action; Author Gibbs can only impair it. Such enormous human convulsions have more reality in newspapers and newsreels than they can ever hope to get as a weakly painted backdrop for the stock characters of a second-rate romance...