Started: March 11, 2025
This is a reread. I originally read it back in college, as I mentioned in previous blog posts: here, here, here and here. However, since this is my first time reviewing this book on this blog, according to my new rules, it gets a video only review.
Links to things mentioned:
* Christopher Hitchen's essay on Andre Malraux: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/books/review/10HITCHEN.html?pagewanted=all
Quotation from that essay: “Published in 1933, [Man’s Fate] did for fiction what Harold Isaacs’s “Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution” did for scholarship. It pointed up the increasing weight of Asia in world affairs; it described epic moments of suffering and upheaval, in Shanghai especially (it was nearly filmed by Sergei Eisenstein); and it demonstrated huge respect for Communism and Communists while simultaneously evoking the tragedy of a revolution betrayed by Moscow. Somewhat lushly Orientalist in its manner, the novel was ridiculed for its affection by Vladimir Nabokov and hailed as prescient by Arthur Koestler."
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (this book is number 5): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century
Also, I didn't mention it in this video, but in "Has Steve Read it Season 2", Steve Donoghue gave me a facepalm for suggesting that there might be any books of Andre Malraux that he hasn't read, because Andre Malraux is one of the canonical authors of the 20th century. See that video here: https://youtu.be/LhSS6P_NeKY?si=4GmrPQofyDMw92DD
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