But while war still serves as a catalyst for the values that Malraux wishes to express, these values are no longer linked with the triumph or defeat of any cause -- whether that of an individual assertion of the will-to-power, or a collective attempt to escape from the humiliation of oppression -- as their necessary condition.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Is this not Malraux himself alluding to his own earlier infatuation with the ideological??

For a dawning sense of illumination occurs in consequence of two events which, as so often in Malraux, suddenly confront a character with the existential question of the nature and value of human life.

André Malraux explains that the notion of beauty was connected to a particular conception of art that arose with the Renaissance and was still dominant in the eighteenth century ( but was supplanted later ).

After the breakdown of his marriage with Clara, Malraux lived with journalist and novelist Josette Clotis, starting in 1933.

Subsequently, Malraux lived with Louise de Vilmorin in the Vilmorin family château at Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, a suburb southwest of Paris.

After Louise's death, Malraux spent his final years with her relative, Sophie de Vilmorin.

At the age of 21, Malraux left for Cambodia with Clara.

The novel about the 1927 failed Communist rebellion in Shanghai was written with obvious sympathy for the Communists ; Malraux was awarded the 1933 Prix Goncourt for this work.

For several years, Jorn toured around Scandinavia and Europe with photographer Gérard Franceschi, former photographer for French writer and onetime culture minister André Malraux on his Musée imaginaire project, photographing ancient, Romanesque, Scandinavian, and Gothic figurative and decorative motifs in order to trace the connections between Scandinavian and European motifs.

Upon reading it one may concur with the French art critic André Malraux that " The human imagination is a museum without walls.

Léo Lagrange chaired these days in person, along with the Minister of Transport, Radical-Socialist Pierre Cot, André Malraux, who later fought in the International Brigades, and other figures of the Popular Front.

In 1921, Ramgoolam set sail by the Messagerie Maritime for London with a transit of a couple of days in Paris when he rushed into the bookshop to purchase copies of the books of André Gide and André Malraux with both of whom he struck friendship.

André Malraux entrusted the architect Édouard Albert with the task of rapidly constructing a new science campus on the site.

Then, he followed, with Malraux and Aragon, the Journées d ' amité pour l ' union sovétique ( The afternoons of friendship for the Soviet Union ).

Malraux was competing with Albert Camus, but was rejected several times, especially in 1954 and 1955, " so long as he does not come back to novel ", while Camus won the prize in 1957.

Man's Fate ( French: La condition humaine, " The Human Condition ") is a 1933 novel written by André Malraux about the failed communist insurrection in Shanghai in 1927, and the existential quandaries facing a diverse group of people associated with the revolution.

For Malraux, anti-art began with the ' Salon ' or ' Academic ' art of the nineteenth century which rejected the basic ambition of art in favour of a semi-photographic illusionism ( often prettified ).

For Malraux, anti-art is still very much with us, though in a different form.

Nehru too had a similar view, at least insofar as he observed to Andre Malraux that his challenge was to " build a just society by just means ".

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

Malraux began work on the first of his books on art, The Psychology of Art, published in three volumes ( 1947 – 1949 ).

Chapman also operates Fugue State Press, a publisher of " advanced and experimental fiction " which has published a peculiar assortment of work by André Malraux, W. B. Keckler, Prakash Kona, Noah Cicero, Eckhard Gerdes, Joshua Cohen, and others.

It has published 28 titles to date, including work by Joshua Cohen, Stephen Dixon, Noah Cicero, Shane Jones, Ben Brooks, James Chapman, Prakash Kona, Eckhard Gerdes, André Malraux, W. B. Keckler, Vi Khi Nao, J.

In the late 1930s, the works of Hemingway, Faulkner and Dos Passos came to be translated into French, and their prose style had a profound impact on the work of writers like Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux and Albert Camus.

Malraux, to be sure, does not abandon the world of violence, combat and sudden death which has become his hallmark as a creative artist, and which is the only world, apparently, in which his imagination can flame into life.

The temple was rediscovered only in 1914, and was the subject of a celebrated case of art theft when André Malraux stole four devatas in 1923 ( he was soon arrested and the figures returned ).

The young Malraux left formal education early, but he followed his curiosity through the booksellers and museums in Paris, and explored its rich libraries as well.

Another problem is that Dutton's categories seek to universalise traditional European notions of aesthetics and art forgetting that, as André Malraux and others have pointed out, there have been large numbers of cultures in which such ideas ( including the idea " art " itself ) were non-existent.

However, both Gide and Malraux were undecided, and this may have been the cause of Sartre's disappointment and discouragement.

" Malraux later said, " What other living artist could have painted the ceiling of the Paris Opera in the way Chagall did ?...

Most of the later monarchist theorists ( Jacques Bainville, Henri Vaugeois, Léon Daudet, Henri Massis, Jacques Maritain, Georges Bernanos, Thierry Maulnier ...) have recognized their debt toward Barrès, who also inspired several generations of writers ( among which Montherlant, Malraux, Mauriac and Aragon ).

like Malraux he was also serving in the tank corps before being captured, and we learn as well that in civilian life he had been a writer.

Malraux argues that, while art has sometimes been oriented towards beauty and the sublime ( principally in post-Renaissance European art ) these qualities, as the wider history of art demonstrates, are by no means essential to it.

The recent biographer Olivier Todd, who published a book on Malraux in 2005, suggests that he had Tourette's syndrome, although that has not been confirmed.

For instance, Comintern records, on which Beevor relies for the comment above, are a very questionable source since Malraux had been critical of some Stalinist policies.

Malraux was responsible for realizing the goals of the " droit à la culture " (" the right to culture ") -- an idea which had been incorporated in the French constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) -- by democratizing access to culture, while also achieving the Gaullist aim of elevating the " grandeur " (" greatness ") of post-war France.

The term has been used in André Malraux ’ s novel ( 1933 ) and René Magritte ’ s paintings 1933 & 1935, both titled La Condition Humaine, Hannah Arendt ’ s book ( 1958 ) and Masaki Kobayashi ’ s film series ( 1959-1961 ).

At " Villa Ocampo " Igor Stravinsky, André Malraux and Rabindranath Tagore had been her guests, also Indira Gandhi, José Ortega y Gasset, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Ernest Ansermet, Rafael Alberti, etc.

It has been widely rumoured that Serge had abandoned socialism, because of a letter written six days before his death to André Malraux saying that he would support the Gaullist government.

Serge's defenders point out that Serge was writing to Malraux, who worked for De Gaulle, as a friend attempting to reestablish a relationship, and that the comment has been taken out of context.

At the avenue's southeast end, near the Louvre, is the Place André Malraux, named after the French writer André Malraux, who had been Minister of Cultural Affairs under De Gaulle.

The ' Salon ', Malraux writes, ' has been expelled from painting, but elsewhere it reigns supreme '.

Since May 1997, the Ealing adjunct has been known as the École André Malraux, named after the French author, adventurer and statesman André Malraux.