Andre Malraux

This text analyzes Malraux's writing from his journalism in Indochina to his novels, art studies and (anti)memoralist essays. Cutting through the dual biographical image of Malraux it makes a balanced assessment of Malraux as a non-ideological if elitist artist who shaped his public role. This book analyses Malraux's writing from his journalism in Indochina to his novels, art studies and (anti)memorialist essays. Cutting through the established dual biographical image of Malraux as a committed leftwinger and revolutionary novelist turned unconditional Gaullist and diehard anti-Communist at the Liberation, it makes a balanced assessment of Malraux as a non-ideological if elitist artist who shaped his public role as much as he shaped the existence of his heroes both novelistic and real.