Anti-Memoirs (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: André Malraux
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The 1920’s to the 1960’s
- Setting: France, the West Indies, Egypt, Senegal, Yemen, southern Asia, Singapore, Indochina, and China
- Principal Characters: André Malraux, Charles de Gaulle, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mao Tse-Tung, David de Mayrena
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Culture, Current events, Memory, Voyages, Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Human race, Existentialism, Life and death, Heads of state
Form and Content
During his richly eventful lifetime, André Malraux achieved recognition as an important and controversial novelist, man of action, art historian, and politician. As an author, Malraux is best known for his novel set in the Chinese Revolution, La Condition humaine (1933; Man’s Fate, 1934), which won the Prix Goncourt. As a man of action, Malraux began by espousing leftist (or anti-Fascist) causes: organizing the anticolonialist Jeune Annam movement in French Indochina, rousing a group of European intellectuals to protest Adolf Hitler’s...
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