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Barely a year after the publication of La Voie royale, Malraux began work on what was to become his best-known novel, La Condition humaine. Serialized in La Nouvelle Revue Française from January 1933 — the month Hitler became Chancellor — winner of the Goncourt Prize in December of that same year, La Condition humaine appeared in book-form in April 1933, by which time Malraux was actively engaged in the intellectual battle against fascism in Europe. From March 1933, he was one of the principal orators at rallies and meetings organised by the Association des Ecrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires (AEAR),1 the Communist-backed, antifascist intellectual league.2
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Ilya Ehrenburg, Memoirs: 1921–1941 (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1966), 242.
Alfred Kazin, Starting out in the Thirties (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1962), 20.
Cf. André Brincourt, Malraux le malentendu (Paris: Grasset, 1986), 4. Subsequent quotations from this work are noted parenthetically in the text.
W. M. Frohock, André Malraux and the Tragic Imagination (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967), 58. Subsequent quotations from this work are noted parenthetically in the text.
Cf. Robert S. Thornberry, ‘Mythomania and the Compensations of the Imagination’, Mélanges Malraux Miscellany XI, 2 (Autumn 1979), 8.
Cf. Jacqueline Machabéïs, ‘Antimémoires, anti-miroir: la leçon de Goya’, Revue André Malraux Review, XXI, 1 (Spring 1989), 33.
Cf. Anne Greenfeld, ‘The Baron de Clappique: Malraux through the Looking-Glass’, Revue André Malraux Review XXIII, 1/2 (Spring /Fall 1991), 64–5.
Cf. Micheline Tison-Braun, Ce monstre incomparable… Malraux ou l’énigme du moi (Paris: Armand Colin, 1983), 18.
Françoise Dorenlot, Malraux ou l’unité de pensée (Paris: Gallimard, 1970), 110. Subsequent quotations from this work are noted parenthetically in the text.
Jean Fréville, ‘Les Livres: André Malraux’, L’Humanité (11 December 1933), 10. Subsequent quotations from this article are noted parenthetically in the text.
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Harris, G.T. (1996). La Condition humaine. In: André Malraux. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390058_5
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