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André Malraux


Born
in Paris, France
December 13, 1901

Died
November 23, 1976

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Politics

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


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 · 10,632 ratings · 949 reviews · 298 distinct works • Similar authors
Man's Fate
3.74 avg rating — 6,765 ratings — published 1933 — 286 editions
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L'Espoir
3.64 avg rating — 855 ratings — published 1937 — 132 editions
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The Way of the Kings
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3.21 avg rating — 679 ratings — published 1930 — 98 editions
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The Conquerors
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3.42 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 1928 — 124 editions
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Anti-Memoirs
3.72 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1967 — 24 editions
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Le musée imaginaire
3.83 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1947 — 34 editions
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The Voices of Silence: Man ...
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4.15 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1951 — 42 editions
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The Temptation of the West
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3.21 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 1926 — 43 editions
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Days of Wrath
3.56 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1935 — 2 editions
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The Walnut Trees of Altenburg
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“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
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“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%

 
  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%

 
  3 votes 6.0%

 
  3 votes 6.0%

 
  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%

 
  1 vote 2.0%

James Joyce - Ulysses, 1922, 841 sayfa
 
  1 vote 2.0%

 
  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%

 
  0 votes 0.0%

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