André Malraux: the Last American Frenchman

André Malraux (1901-76) did not work 35-hour weeks. Adventurer, smuggler, wheeler-dealer, rare-book impresario -- and, yes, world-renowned novelist, international intellectual, freedom fighter in Indochina and Europe, Gaullist minister of culture -- how could he?

Author of Man's Fate (1933), set amid the Shanghai uprisings, and Man's Hope (1937), a tale of the Spanish Civil War, he built one of those "work of art" lives that dangled between his two book titles, the

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