Unmasking Monsieur Malraux
Richard Mayne, 25 June 1992
The Conquerors
by André Malraux, translated by Stephen Becker.
Chicago, 198 pp., £8.75, December 1991,0 226 50290 2 Show More
by André Malraux, translated by Stephen Becker.
Chicago, 198 pp., £8.75, December 1991,
The Temptation of the West
by André Malraux, translated by Robert Hollander.
Chicago, 122 pp., £8.75, February 1992,0 226 50291 0 Show More
by André Malraux, translated by Robert Hollander.
Chicago, 122 pp., £8.75, February 1992,
The Walnut Tree of Altenburg
by André Malraux, translated by A.W. Fielding.
Chicago, 224 pp., £9.55, April 1992,0 226 50289 9 Show More
by André Malraux, translated by A.W. Fielding.
Chicago, 224 pp., £9.55, April 1992,
“... He’s the one great epic novelist of the revolution to come that never came.’ ‘All of a sudden, after the war, his novels seemed to me to have no literary value whatsoever,’ ‘I find them naff.’ ‘In L’Espoir he is immersed in the action and that makes his art great,’ ‘He was a fake: he always pretended to be what he was not.’ ‘He was in love with danger, with adventure,’ ‘He was one of the most religious men I ever met ... ”
