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AndréMalraux

ANTIMÉMOIRES

Gallimard, France, 1967.

Softcover.

Size: 20,4 x 13,9 cm. Pp. 604, 4l.

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Coverswith some traces of use. Traces of pencil of previous owner on the back cover.Otherwise, a nice clean copy.

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AndréMalraux (3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist,art theorist and Minister for Cultural Affairs. Malraux\'s novel La ConditionHumaine (Man\'s Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed byPresident Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information (1945–1946) and subsequentlyas France\'s first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle\'s presidency(1959–1969).

Early lifeand education

Malrauxwas born in Paris in 1901, the son of Fernand-Georges Malraux and Berthe Lamy(Malraux). His parents separated in 1905 and eventually divorced. There aresuggestions that Malraux\'s paternal grandfather committed suicide in 1909.[1]

Malrauxwas raised by his mother, maternal aunt Marie and maternal grandmother,Adrienne Lamy-Romagna, who had a grocery store in the small town ofBondy.[1][2] His father, a stockbroker, committed suicide in 1930 after theinternational crash of the stock market and onset of the Great Depression.[3]From his childhood, associates noticed that Andre had marked nervousness andmotor and vocal tics. The recent biographer Olivier Todd, who published a bookon Malraux in 2005, suggests that he had Tourette\'s syndrome, although that hasnot been confirmed.[4] Either way, most critics have not seen this as asignificant factor in Malraux\'s life or literary works.

The youngMalraux left formal education early, but he followed his curiosity through thebooksellers and museums in Paris, and explored its rich libraries as well.

[edit]Marriage and family

In 1922,Malraux married Clara Goldschmidt. Malraux and his first wife separated in 1938but didn\'t divorce before 1947. His daughter from this marriage, Florence(b.1933), married the filmmaker Alain Resnais.[5]

After thebreakdown of his marriage with Clara, Malraux lived with journalist andnovelist Josette Clotis, starting in 1933. Malraux and Josette had two sons:Pierre-Gauthier (1940–1961) and Vincent (1943–1961). During 1944, while Malrauxwas fighting in Alsace, Josette died, aged 34, when she slipped while boardinga train. His two sons died together in 1961 in an automobile accident.

In 1948,Malraux married a second time, to Marie-Madeleine Lioux, a concert pianist andthe widow of his half-brother, Roland Malraux. They separated in 1966.

Subsequently,Malraux lived with Louse de Vilmorin in the Vilmorin family château atVerrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, a suburb southwest of Paris. Vilmorin was bestknown as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic orartistic milieu. Her most famous novel was Madame de..., published in 1951, whichwas adapted into the celebrated film The Earrings of Madame de... (1953),directed by Max Ophüls and starring Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux andVittorio de Sica. Vilmorin\'s other works included Juliette, La lettre dans untaxi, Les belles amours, Saintes-Unefois, and Intimités. Her letters to JeanCocteau were published after the death of both correspondents. After Louise\'sdeath, Malraux spent his final years with her relative, Sophie de Vilmorin.

[edit]Career

[edit]Early years

As a youngman, Malraux began writing for the magazine Action. He worked as an editor forthe publisher Simon Kra, who produced \"limited edition\" books, whichwere popularly considered an investment against inflation. Some of these booksincluded Marquis de Sade\'s Les Amis de crime, and Le Bordel de Venise.[6]

[edit]Indochina

At the ageof 21, Malraux left for Cambodia with Clara.[7] There he undertook anexploratory expedition into the Cambodian jungle. On his return he was arrestedby French colonial authorities for removing bas-reliefs from Banteay Srei, aKhmer temple. Malraux later used the episode in his second novel La VoieRoyale.

Hisexperiences and observations while in Indochina led to Malraux\'s becominghighly critical of the French colonial authorities. In 1925, he helped toorganize the Young Annam League and founded a newspaper L\'Indochine.[8]

On hisreturn to France, he published The Temptation of the West (1926). It was in theform of an exchange of letters between a Westerner and an Asian, comparingaspects of the two cultures. This was followed by his first novel TheConquerors (1928), then by The Royal Way (1930) which was influenced by hisCambodian experience.[9] In 1933 he published Man\'s Fate (La ConditionHumaine). The novel about the 1927 failed Communist rebellion in Shanghai waswritten with obvious sympathy for the Communists; Malraux was awarded the 1933Prix Goncourt for this work.[10]

[edit]Spanish Civil War

During the1930s, Malraux was active in the anti-fascist Popular Front in France. At the beginningof the Spanish Civil War he joined the Republican forces in Spain, serving inand helping to organize the small Spanish Republican Air Force.[11] (CurtisCate, one of his biographers, claims that Malraux was slightly wounded twiceduring efforts to stop the Falangists\' takeover of Madrid, but the historianHugh Thomas claims otherwise.)

The Frenchgovernment sent aircraft to Republican forces in Spain, but they were obsoleteby the standards of 1936. They were mainly Potez 540 bombers and DewoitineD.372 fighters. The slow Potez 540 rarely survived three months of airmissions, moving some 80 knots against enemy fighters flying at more than 250knots. Few of the fighters proved to be airworthy, and they were deliveredintentionally without guns or gunsights. (The Ministry of Defense of France hadfeared that modern types of planes would easily be captured by the Germansfighting for Francisco Franco, and the lesser models were a way of maintainingofficial \"neutrality\".)[12] The planes were surpassed by more moderntypes introduced by the end of 1936 on both sides.

TheRepublic circulated photos of Malraux standing next to some Potez 540 bomberssuggesting that France was on their side, at a time when France and the UnitedKingdom had declared official neutrality. Malraux himself was not a pilot, andnever claimed to be one, but he was given the title of the Squadron Leader of\'Espana\'. His commitment to the Republicans was personal, like that of manyother foreign volunteers; there was never any suggestion that he was there atthe behest of the French Government. Aware of the Republicans\' inferiorarmaments, of which outdated aircraft were just one example, he toured theUnited States to raise funds for the cause. In 1938 he published L\'Espoir (Man\'sHope), a novel influenced by his Spanish war experiences.[13]

Malrauxwas occasionally criticized by opponents for his involvement or motivations inthe war. He was sometimes described as an \'adventurer\'.[14] Antony Beevor, forexample, writes, \"Malraux stands out, not just because he was amythomaniac in his claims of martial heroism – in Spain and later in the FrenchResistance – but because he cynically exploited the opportunity forintellectual heroism in the legend of the Spanish Republic.\"[15]

However,other biographical sources, including fellow combatants, express very differentviews, praising Malraux\'s leadership and sense of camaraderie. Here aselsewhere, Malraux\'s participation in major historical events inevitablybrought him determined adversaries as well as strong supporters, and theresulting polarization of opinion has colored, and rendered questionable, muchthat has been written about his life.[16] For instance, Comintern records, onwhich Beevor relies for the comment above, are a very questionable source sinceMalraux had been critical of some Stalinist policies. Beevor\'s reference to\"claims of martial heroism\" is also dubious since although Malraux\'sbooks sometimes describe military action, he never presents his own role asespecially heroic.

World WarII

At thebeginning of the Second World War, Malraux joined the French Army. He wascaptured in 1940 during the Battle of France but escaped and later joined theFrench Resistance.[17] In 1944, he was captured by the Gestapo.[18] He latercommanded the tank unit Brigade Alsace-Lorraine in defence of Strasbourg and inthe attack on Stuttgart.[19]

After thewar, Malraux was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance and the Croix de guerre.The British awarded him the Distinguished Service Order, for his work withBritish liaison officers in Corrèze, Dordogne and Lot. After Dordogne wasliberated, Malraux led a battalion of former resistance fighters toAlsace-Lorraine, where they fought alongside the First Army.[20]

During thewar, he worked on his last novel, The Struggle with the Angel, the title drawnfrom the story of the Biblical Jacob. The manuscript was destroyed by theGestapo after his capture in 1944. A surviving first section, titled The WalnutTrees of Altenburg, was published after the war.

Afterthe war

Afterthe war, General Charles de Gaulle appointed Malraux as his Minister forInformation (1945–1946). Malraux began work on the first of his books on art,The Psychology of Art, published in three volumes (1947–1949). The work was subsequentlyrevised and republished in one volume as The Voices of Silence (Les Voix duSilence). Other important works on the theory of art were to follow. Theseincluded the three-volume Metamorphosis of the Gods and Precarious Man andLiterature, which was published posthumously in 1977.

Malrauxwas appointed Minister of State in De Gaulle\'s 1958–1959 government, andFrance\'s first Minister of Cultural Affairs. He served De Gaulle during hisentire presidency (1959–1969).[4] Among many other initiatives, he launched athen-innovative (and subsequently widely-imitated) program to clean theblackened facades of notable French buildings, revealing the natural stoneunderneath.[22] He also created maisons de la culture in a number of provincialcities and worked to preserve France\'s national heritage.

In1960 Malraux worked as editor on the series Arts of Mankind, an ambitioussurvey of world art that generated more than thirty large, illustrated volumes.During the 1960s, Malraux published the first volume of a trilogy on artentitled The Metamorphosis of the Gods; the second two volumes (not yettranslated into English) were published shortly before he died.

Malrauxwas also an outspoken supporter of the Bangladesh liberation movement duringthe 1971 Pakistani Civil War.

Healso began publishing a series of semi-autobiographical works, the first ofwhich was Antimémoires (1967). One of these, Lazarus, is a reflection on deathafter he suffered a serious illness. La Tete d\'obsidienne (1974) (translated asPicasso\'s Mask) concerns Picasso, and visual art more generally.

Malrauxdied in Créteil, near Paris, on 23 November 1976. He was buried in theVerrières-le-Buisson (Essonne) cemetery. In honor of his contributions toFrench culture, his ashes were moved to the Panthéon in Paris during 1996, onthe twentieth anniversary of his passing.

Legacyand honors

1933, Prix Goncourt

Médaille de la Résistance

Croix de guerre

Distinguished Service Order (UnitedKingdom)

Malraux\'sworks on the theory of art, such as The Voices of Silence, contain arevolutionary approach to art that challenges the Enlightenment tradition whichviews art simply as a source of \"aesthetic pleasure\". French writerAndré Brincourt commented that Malraux\'s books on art have been \"skimmed alot but very little read\",[23] and it is true that criticalcommentary[whose?] has often given superficial and distorted accounts of theirarguments.

Thereis now a large and steadily growing body of critical commentary on Malraux\'sliterary œuvre, including his very extensive writings on art. Several of hisworks, including the last two volumes of The Metamorphosis of the Gods(L\'Irréel and L\'Intemporel) are not yet available in English translation.

1968, an international Malraux Society wasfounded in the United States. It produces the journal Revue André MalrauxReview, Michel Lantelme, editor, at University of Oklahoma.[24]

The Amitiés internationales André Malrauxis based in Paris and promotes his works.

A French-language website, Site littéraireAndré Malraux,[25] provides valuable research and information dedicated toAndré Malraux and topics such as literature, art, religion, history andculture.

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