Anti-Memoirs

by André Malraux

Book Overview

Reprint from the French edition. Five printings plus a book club edition. André Malraux (1901 - 1976) was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007DL81A
• ISBN13: 9781199793867
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

From Olympus he tells how to see our worlds

Malraux culture- hero supreme, revolutionary, novelist, Resistance hero, art historian here tells us of various journeys and returns, meditates on the state of the world, and the situation of mankind. In China he is particularly perceptive, and in talks with Chou-en-Lai and with Mao we see the shape of the future, as Chou obsesses about American power, and Mao angry at Russia, nonetheless too also points to a dominant Chinese part in the human future. Malraux is a writer of complexity, and it sometimes difficult knowing in exactly which direction his somewhat haughty irony is going. But his knowledge is vast, his experience also, and if he speaks to us with a bit of the Olympian hauture of his patron and friend DeGaulle it is not surprising. He gives us nonetheless a sense of the vast richness of human cultures and the complicated meanderings of life and mind in a world of suffering, of beauty, and of mystery.