Malraux, André - Malraux, André 1901–
Malraux, André 1901–
French novelist and critic, best known for his novel, Man's Fate. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 21-22.)
Malraux introduces Existentialist heroes who … suffer intensely from the malady of alienation…. For them God is dead. Alone with themselves, shut up within the cell of their own ego[s], they face a universe that is without a glimmer of ultimate meaning…. It is despair that drives them to revolt and it is despair that defeats them. But though they are dragged under in the end, their revolt grants them a moment of vision that presents a victory, however brief, of the human spirit. This is the nature of the conflict that sustains Malraux's tragic vision…. Though Malraux's heroes are inevitably doomed, they will not surrender the sovereignty of self….
With sensitive insight and compassion Malraux delineates the essential dignity of man, however wretched his condition. And this craving for...
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