Word: voie
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...York Times seven months later, when its Sunday magazine published a report from Cambodia by Freelancer Christopher Jones. In fact, Jones had written the story while at his home in Spain and for part of it had plagiarized a 1930 novel, André Malraux's La Voie Royale...
...paragraph in which Jones described an old blind man "chanting the Ramayana, a part of Cambodia's cultural heritage, as he twanged a primitive guitar." Cockburn produced an almost identical passage from André Malraux's novel about his Cambodian travels in 1923 and 1924, La Voie Royale. Reckoned the Voice writer...
...before he can act decisively; in Bonnie and Clyde, the woman takes bank robbery and murder in her stride while the man battles paralysis (this is not to say that Bonnie is crudely portrayed). Man must prove himself against the external and feminine. The hero of Malraux's La Voie Royale is driven to conquer nameless woman after nameless woman. The vision of writing that emerges from all this is somewhat masturbatory--the emphasis is not on understanding or even communication but on the need to dominate an outside implacability, like sleeping with a whore. Here again is Norman Mailer...
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