Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Bogeyman Welles: ''Far from expecting the radio audience to take the program as fact rather than as a fictional presentation, we feared that the classic H. G. Wells fantasy . . . might appear too old-fashioned for modern consumption...
...suggest their meaning, is the task of André Malraux in Man's Hope. His fifth novel, it establishes more plainly than ever that Malraux is the world's foremost novelist of revolution and one of the most exciting and provocative of living writers. Unlike most modern novels, Man's Hope was written on the scene of action, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, describes real characters and events that actually occurred. And unlike most modern novelists, André Malraux is also a man of action, a revolutionist, an explorer, the man who organized...
...combines vivid journalistic observation with extraordinary imaginative flights, consequently stands out, not only as a novel but as the best piece of reporting that has come out of the Spanish Civil War. And as such it illustrates Malraux's theory of fiction-that the real news of the modern world can be better told in novels than in newspapers; that novelists, if they are to save their art from puerility, must fight for their beliefs, take part in events, and in lulls between the battles jot down their records of what they have actually seen...
...collection of antiquated fighting planes - old Breguets, built in 1921, a Dewoitine, a Hawker Fury, a Gipsy Dragon - which Malraux had purchased for the Government. There was a twin-engined, high-wing Potez which carried a crew of five and in which Malraux flew as copilot. There was a modern, fast Boeing, useful only as a threat be cause the machine gun could not be synchronized to fire through the propeller. No match for Franco's air force, Malraux's fliers dodged behind clouds, avoided combat as much as possible. Crews were made up of professional fliers hired...
...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 the bloody legends of the modern world out of which, he hopes and believes, the golden legends will some day come...