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050 00 $aPQ2625.A716$bZ946513 2005
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100 1 $aTodd, Olivier.
240 10 $aAndré Malraux.$lEnglish
245 10 $aMalraux :$ba life /$cOlivier Todd ; translated by Joseph West.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf$c2005.
300 $axiii, 541 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [517]-522) and index.
520 1 $a"Writer, publisher, war hero, French government minister, Andre Malraux was renowned as a Renaissance man of the twentieth century. Now, Olivier Todd gives us this life, in which fact competes dramatically with his subject's previously little-known mythomania." "We see the adventurous young Malraux move from 1920s literary Paris to colonial Cambodia, Cochin China, and Spain in its civil war. Todd charts the thrilling exploits that would inspire such novels as Man's Fate, but, just as fascinating, he also traces Malraux's lifelong pattern of lies: claiming friendship with Mao, he was called to tutor Nixon, despite having met the Great Helmsman only once; a minor injury becomes in recollections a near-mortal battlefield wound; stories of heroism in the French Resistance omit to mention that Malraux joined just a few weeks before the Allied landings." "Todd separates myth from reality to throw light on a brilliant con man who would become a national hero, but he also lets us see Malraux's genuine achievements as both writer and man of action. His real life and the one he embroidered come together in this biography to reveal how Malraux, the protean genius, became his own greatest character."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMalraux, André,$d1901-1976.
650 0 $aNovelists, French$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aArt historians$zFrance$vBiography.
650 0 $aStatesmen$zFrance$vBiography.
852 00 $bglx$hPQ2625.A716$iZ946513 2005