Malraux
Subtitle: a life
By: Olivier Todd ; translated by Joseph West.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 541
Subjects: Malraux, André, -- 1901-1976; Novelists, French -- 20th century -- Biography; Art historians -- France -- Biography; Statesmen -- France -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Work titles: André Malraux.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-522) and index.
Table of contents: title: Heroes and confectioners; title: Adolescence of a leader; title: The strange foreigner; title: False thieves?; title: A true revolutionary?; title: A farewell to arms; title: Exotic Parisian; title: Asiatic paths; title: Commercial traveler; title: 1933; title: The Queen of Sheba; title: Trotskyist tropism; title: Soviet comrades; title: Time to choose; title: From Eisenstein to L'Humanité; title: Stalinist temptation; title: Agitprop; title: What hope?; title: Sierra de Teruel; title: The phony war; title: The war of the phonies; title: Malrauxs in the resistance; title: The Alsace-Lorraine cross; title: History, legend, novel; title: Civilian life; title: The militant companion; title: Family life; title: Power; title: Jackie and La Gioconda; title: Crises; title: Mao, memories, antimémoires; title: Temptation of the east; title: The orator; title: Clouds in May; title: Literature still; title: Brilliant pictures; title: The arts and art; title: Pot-au-feu and caviar; title: Scars.