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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54479194 Title: Malraux : a life Author: Olivier Todd Publisher: New York : Knopf, 2005. ISBN/ISSN: 0375407022 9780375407024 OCLC:54479194

  
  

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Malraux : a life

Author:	Olivier Todd
Publisher:	New York : Knopf, 2005.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
Summary:	"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."--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Malraux, André, -- 1901-1976. Novelists, French -- 20th century -- Biography. Art historians -- France -- Biography. View all subjects
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