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...Malraux's masterpiece, Man's Fate, stayed close to the history of the Shanghai revolution of 1927, in its final chapters reached heights of intensity so moving that the book immediately took its place with the best of post-War fiction. In Man's Hope Malraux follows the same practice, but this time traces history in the making, convincingly dramatizes his theory that reporting by way of novels can result in works...
...Malraux's novels have little of the slack, humble, half-awake ordinariness in which so much of life is spent, still less of the habitual round of domestic squabbles and pleasures that make peace sweet for most men. They deal with war, and usually with the vanquished; with violence, and usually with those who suffer by it. To many a reader, as a result, they seem as lurid and shocking as a street accident. This criticism Malraux answers by pointing out that these accidents do happen, that in our own time they are everyday occurrences, that he is reporting...
...Author. Volatile, restless, sharp-eyed, thin-featured, André Malraux is known slightly by many people, well by very few. He talks a great deal, and very rapidly, smokes constantly, is disturbed by a facial tic which stayed with him after illness in China. Gloomily handsome, mildly sardonic, he enjoys the companionship of pretty women. Born in Paris on November 3, 1901, of well-to-do parents, he went to five schools as War drove his family in and out of the city, graduated from the famed Lycée Condorcet, which schooled Proust, then studied Sanskrit at the Paris...
Among archeologists, Indo-China is famous for its immense, moldering, bat-infested ruins of Khmer civilization, of which Angkor Wat is the best known. Among economists, Indo-China is equally famous as one of the world's worst-run colonies. For a year young Malraux dug through ruins, crawled over fallen temples which reeked with the decayed jungle vegetation of eight centuries, collected Khmer statuary, then abruptly lost interest in Indo-China's past, became interested in Indo-China's present. Working with a group known as the Young Annam League, which fought for dominion status...
Between 1923 and 1927 Malraux shuttled back & forth between Paris and the Far East, published a magazine in Saïgon, helped natives get out newspapers the Government suppressed. At 24 he was associate secretary general of the Kuomintang for Cochin-China. At 25 he was a member of the Committee of Twelve (Chiang Kai-shek was another member) which directed the Canton insurrection during the Chinese revolution, Malraux's post being propaganda commissioner for the key provinces of Kwangsi and Kwangtung...