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André Malraux

Born

in Paris, France

December 13, 1901

Died

November 23, 1976

Website

http://www.malraux.org/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Politics

Influences

Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Jules Michelet, T.E. Lawrence, André Gid ...more

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Malraux was born in Paris during 1901, the son of Fernand-Georges Malraux and Berthe Lamy (Malraux). His parents separated during 1905 and eventually divorced. He was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother, Berthe and Adrienne Lamy in the small town of Bondy. His father, a stockbroker, committed suicide in 1930. Andre had Tourette's Syndrome during his childhood, resulting in motor and vocal tics.

At the age of 21, Malraux left for Cambodia with his new wife Clara Goldschmidt. In Cambodia, he undertook an exploratory expedition into the Cambodian jungle. On his return he was arrested by French colonial authorities for removing bas-reliefs from one of the temples he discovered. Banteay Srei (The French government itself had removed lar ...more

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Average rating: 3.69 · 9,600 ratings · 792 reviews · 263 distinct works • Similar authors

	Man's Fate 3.74 avg rating — 6,166 ratings — published 1933 — 246 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Espoir 3.67 avg rating — 777 ratings — published 1937 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way of the Kings by André Malraux, Howard Curtis (Translator), Rachel Seiffert (Foreword) 3.21 avg rating — 611 ratings — published 1930 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anti-Memoirs 3.71 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 1967 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conquerors by André Malraux, Stephen Becker (Translator), Herbert R. Lottman (Foreword) 3.41 avg rating — 334 ratings — published 1928 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le musée imaginaire 3.91 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 1947 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voices of Silence: Man and His Art by André Malraux, Stuart Gilbert (Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1951 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Temptation of the West by André Malraux, Robert Hollander (Translator) 3.25 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1926 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Walnut Trees of Altenburg by André Malraux, Joel Peter Johnson (Illustrator), A. W. Fielding (Translator) 3.60 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1989 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Days of Wrath 3.55 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1935 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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La Métamorphose des dieux (4 books)
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Malraux: Œuvres complètes (3 books)
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Quotes by André Malraux (?)

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux

tags: deception, hiding, lies, man, secrets, self-awareness

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“What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
― André Malraux

tags: misanthropy

306 likes

“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.”
― Andre Malraux

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Oldtimer - Klasik Okuma Grubu - Mayıs-Haziran 2018 Uzun Okumalar Anketi

Mayıs ve Haziran 2018 aylarında aşağıdaki klasiklerden hangisini okuyalım?

Victor Hugo - Notre Dame'ın Kamburu, 1831, 572 sayfa

7 votes 14.0%

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Karamazov Kardeşler, 1880, 1025 sayfa

6 votes 12.0%

Haruki Murakami - Sahilde Kafka, 2002, 656 sayfa

6 votes 12.0%

Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov, 1859, 585 sayfa

4 votes 8.0%

Victor Hugo -
Sefiller, 1862, 1724 sayfa

4 votes 8.0%

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, 1878, 1068 sayfa

4 votes 8.0%

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote, 1605, 910 sayfa

3 votes 6.0%

Wiesław Myśliwski - Taş Taş Üstünde, 1984, 500 sayfa

3 votes 6.0%

Hanya Yanagihara - Değersiz Bir Hayat, 2015, 864 sayfa

3 votes 6.0%

Vedat Türkali - Güven, 2000, 1248 sayfa

2 votes 4.0%

George Eliot - Middlemarch, 1871, 1296 sayfa

2 votes 4.0%

Günter Grass - Teneke Trampet, 1959, 727 sayfa

2 votes 4.0%

W. Somerset Maugham - Hayatın Esiriyiz, 1915, 800 sayfa

1 vote 2.0%

James Joyce - Ulysses, 1922, 841 sayfa

1 vote 2.0%

Katherine Mansfield - Katıksız Mutluluk - Bütün Öyküler, 1920, 873 sayfa

1 vote 2.0%

Alexandre Dumas - Üç Silahşörler, 1844, 755 sayfa

1 vote 2.0%

André Malraux - Umut, 1937, 569 sayfa

0 votes 0.0%

Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooklar - Bir Ailenin Çöküşü, 1901, 831 sayfa

0 votes 0.0%

50 total votes

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