Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To recapture such violent moments of the Spanish Civil War, and to 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 Belief. The real and the imaginary have always been mixed in Malraux's novels. His first, The Conquerors, pictured revolution in Canton, followed the course of actual events, included real characters like Revolutionist Michael Borodin, Mao Tse-tung, head of the Chinese Soviets.
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...
Because history is at best violent, violence crowds his books. In Man's Hope, as in his previous work, he writes most intensely of those moments when hope has finally vanished from men's lives-when the revolution has failed or the plans fallen through, when escape has...
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...