Malraux, André (Georges)

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French writer, art critic, and politician. An active antifascist, he gained international renown for his novel La Condition humaine/Man's Estate (1933), set during the nationalist/communist revolution in China in the 1920s. L'Espoir/Days of Hope (1937) is set in Civil War Spain, where he was a bomber pilot in the International Brigade. In his revolutionary novels he frequently depicts individuals in situations where they are forced to examine the meaning of their own life. He also made an outstanding contribution to aesthetics with La Psychologie de l'art (1947–49), revised as Les Voix du silence/The Voices of Silence (1951).

Political career
Malraux rejected communism and supported the Gaullist resistance during World War II, becoming minister of information in de Gaulle's government 1945–46 and minister of cultural affairs 1960–69.

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