At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War he joined the Republican forces in Spain, serving in, and helping to organize, their small air force. For La Condition Humaine, a novel about the 1927 failed Communist rebellion in Shanghai, written with obvious sympathy for the Communists, he won the 1933 Prix Goncourt.ĭuring the 1930s, Malraux was active in the anti-Fascist Popular Front in France. This was followed by his first novel The Conquerors (1928), then by The Royal Way (1930) which was influenced by his Cambodian experience, and then by Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine). On his return to France, he published The Temptation of the West (1926) which had the format of an exchange of letters between a Westerner and an Asian comparing aspects of the two cultures. Malraux became very critical of the French colonial authorities in Indochina, and during 1925 helped to organize the Young Annam League and founded a newspaper Indochina in Chains. Malraux later incorporated the episode into his second novel La Voie Royale. Banteay Srei (The French government itself had removed large numbers of sculptures and artifacts from already discovered sites such as Angkor Wat around this time). On his return he was arrested by French colonial authorities for removing bas-reliefs from one of the temples he discovered. In Cambodia, he undertook an exploratory expedition into the Cambodian jungle. Andre had Tourette's Syndrome during his childhood, resulting in motor and vocal tics.Īt the age of 21, Malraux left for Cambodia with his new wife Clara Goldschmidt. His father, a stockbroker, committed suicide in 1930. He was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother, Berthe and Adrienne Lamy in the small town of Bondy. His parents separated during 1905 and eventually divorced. Malraux was born in Paris during 1901, the son of Fernand-Georges Malraux and Berthe Lamy (Malraux).
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