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...ROYAL WAY-André Malraux- Smith & Haas...
Though all novelists tacitly agree that their proper study is Man, some merely tickle or tattoo their subject. Serious novelists take a knife to him. Author Malraux's, Man's Fate (TIME. June 25), proved him to be of the surgical sort. Since not everyone can calmly witness the bloody business of such an operation, however earnestly and skilfully performed, many drew back from the spectacle of Man's Fate with shuddering dislike. The Royal Way will hardly please them better, though the surface excitement of its melodrama should make it a more popular performance...
Like the late Joseph Conrad, Malraux sets his story against a sinister and savage background, gives it, without Conrad's ambiguity, a deeper than surface significance. Man's fate, he implicitly says, is death, but there is a royal way to it, for those who have the courage to take...
...revolutionary government of the South ; as a member of the Committee of Twelve he helped direct the Canton insurrection, saw plenty of hand-to-hand fighting. His story of" the Shanghai rising is a compressed and fictionalized account of what actually happened. Last March, with Pilot Molinier. Malraux made international headlines when he flew across the Great Arabian Desert and re ported the discovery of what he thought was the legendary city of Sheba. with 20 towers still standing (TIME. March 19). At present Author Malraux lives in Paris, working for the publishing house of Gallimard. His first book (Limes...
...Sidney Thomas, first white man to cross the great Southern Arabian Desert (1930), and H. St. John Philby, a later traveler, encountered natives who told them of a once magnificent city buried in the sands. Aware of this, some archeologists hesitated to throw too much cold water on the Malraux bulletin, preferred to wait and see the photographs which lucky l'Intransigeant was expecting...