Andre Malraux — Man in his Violence
Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years. Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school …
Tag Archives: Fiction:France
“Eyes Full of Empty” — Jérémie Guez, in Noirish Paris
If walking the dark streets of Paris, mayhem around every corner, learning skulduggery from residents of the banlieues, is your idea …
1914: Slender Novel, Big War
Although Jean Echenoz is both widely read and a winner of multiple literary prizes in France you’d have to …
The Comedy of Charleroi – Courage and Cowardice in WW I
“The captain … was due to retire in October. In the very first burst of fire he was swept out …
Cambodia: Through a Thief’s Eyes
The first I ever heard of Angkor Wat’s fabulous temple complex was reading Andre Malraux at a young age, probably …
The Red and The Black: Love and Ambition in a time of Revolution
If it has been years since you attended to Stendhal’s great novel, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of …