CRITIC AT LARGE

André Malraux: the Last American Frenchman

By CARLIN ROMANO

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...

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