Man's Fate

By Andre Malraux

Both as an artist and as a man, Andre Malraux has iden- tified himself with the revolutionary forces of our time. His novels, now internationally famous, are integrated in a deliberate pattern—the epic of revolution. The ever- recurring motif of his works is that heroism and courage ennoble man and are the means by which he will ulti- mately conquer hatred and achieve beauty and peace. Born in Paris on November 3, 1901, Malraux went to Indo-China in 1921 and from there made an archeological expedition to Cambodia and Siam. In the 1925-1927 upris- ing in China he became Commissioner of Propaganda for the revolutionary government of the South. A member of the Committee of Twelve, he was active in the Canton insurrection and participated in hand-to-hand fighting. His novel of revolutionary China, Man's Fate, won the Goncourt Prize. In t933, he flew across the Great Arabian Desert and announced the discovery of the legendary city of Sheba. Since his return to France, Malraux has allied himself with the cause of the extreme Left. His last novel, Days of Wrath, turns to the European scene and deals with the terror in Nazi Germany.

Random House, 1934, 357p.