André Malraux

André Malraux (born Georges André Malraux, 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister for Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (1933) won the Prix Goncourt.

Works

(in French unless noted otherwise)

• La Tentation de l'Occident, Paris: Grasset, 1926.
  • The Temptation of the West, trans. & intro. Robert Hollander, New York: Vintage Books, 1961. (English)
• Les Conquérants, Paris: Grasset, 1928; new ed., Paris: Grasset, 1949.
  • The Conquerors, trans. Winifred Stephens Whale, New York: Random House, 1929.
• Royaume-farfelu, Paris: Gallimard, 1928.
• La Voie royale, Paris: Grasset, 1930.
  • The Royal Way, trans. Stuart Gilbert, New York: Random House, 1935. (English)
• Œuvres Gothico-Bouddhiques du Pamir, Paris: Gallimard, 1930.
• La Condition humaine, Paris: Gallimard, 1933.
  • Man's Fate, trans. Haakon Chevalier, New York: Modern Library, 1934; 50th anniv.ed., Random House, 1984. (English)
  • Condiţia umană, trans. Ion Mihăileanu, Bucharest: ELU, 1965, 354 pp.
  • Condiţia umană, trans. Irina Eliade, Bucharest: RAO, 1993. (Romanian)

• Le Temps du mépris, Paris: Gallimard, 1935.
  • Days of Wrath, forew. Waldo Frank, trans. Haakon Chevalier, New York: Random House, 1936, xvii+174 pp. (English)
  • An Age Of Oppression, trans. Roberta A.E. Newnham, Bristol & Portland: Elm Bank, 2003. (English)
• L'Espoir, Paris: Gallimard, 1937.
  • Man's Hope, trans. Stuart Gilbert and Alistair Macdonald, New York: Random House, 1938. (English)
• Tableau de la littérature française, Paris: Gallimard, 1939.
• La Lutte avec l'ange, Lausanne-Yverdon: Éditions du haut pays, 1943; repr. as Les Noyers de l'Altenburg, Paris: Gallimard, 1948.
  • The Walnut Trees of Altenburg, trans. A.W. Fielding, London: John Lehmann, 1952. (English)
• Œuvres complètes, 7 vols., Genève: Skira, 1945; new ed., 6 vols., pref. Jean Grosjean, ed. Pierre Brunel, Paris: Gallimard, 1989-2010.
• Scenes choisies, Paris: Gallimard, 1946.
• Esquisse d'une psychologie du cinéma, Paris: Gallimard, 1946.
• Les Dessins de Goya au musée du Prado, Geneva: Skira, 1947
• Psychologie de l'art, 3 vols.: Le Musée imaginaire (I), La Création artistique (II), La Monnaie de l'absolu (III), Geneva: Skira, 1947-50; new ed. as Les Voix du silence, Paris: Gallimard, 1951, 657 pp. Review: Blanchot (1950/97 EN).
  • The Voices of Silence, trans. Stuart Gilbert, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953; Paladin, 1974, 679 pp. Incl. "Museum Without Walls". (English)
• Romans, Paris: Pleiade, 1947.
• with James Burnham, The Case for De Gaulle: A Dialogue, New York: Random House, 1949. (English)
• Saturne, Paris: Gallimard, 1950.
  • Saturn: An Essay on Goya, trans. C.W. Chilton, London: Phaidon, 1957. (English)
• Le Musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale: La Statuaire, Paris: Gallimard, 1952.
• Le Musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale: Des Bas-reliefs aux grottes sacrées, Paris: Gallimard, 1954.
• Le Musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale: Le Monde chrétien, Paris: Galli­mard, 1954.
• Du Musée, Paris: Estienne, 1955.
• La Metamorphose des dieux, Paris: Gallimard, 1957.
  • The Metamorphosis of the Gods, trans. Stuart Gilbert, Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1960.

Literature

• Charles D. Blend, André Malraux: Tragic Humanist, 1963.
• Jean Lescure, Album Malraux. Iconographie commentée, 1986, 368 pp. [1] (French)
• Hannah Feldman, "Fragments and Façades: André Malraux and the Image of the Past as the Future of the Present", part 1 in Feldman, From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962, Duke University Press, 2014, pp 19-74.

Links

• http://www.andremalraux.com