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(1930s) Man's Fate
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1930s Highlights
Books
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Man's Fate
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<p>(June 25, 1934)
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<p> Connoisseurs of Gallic wit will find little to please their
palates in Man's Fate by Andre Malraux. The one comic episode,
in which the conquering Ferral is made a fool of by his mistress
but counters in kind, has too bitter a taste for fun. The scenes
that will stick in a reader's memory are more sinister--the
phonograph shop after it had been bombed, with the bloody
remains of the owner's wife and child; Ch'en's attempted murder;
the crowded lines of wounded Communists lying in the station,
waiting to be taken out and shot. Man's Fate is not a pleasant
book but few readers will soon forget their encounter with it.
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<p> The Author, at 32, already acknowledged as a front-rank
European writer, Son of a French civil servant, he went to
Indo-China at 20, made an archaeological expedition to Cambodia
and Siam, was not only an eyewitness of some of China's
bloodiest revolutionary years (1925-27) but an actor in them.
He was Commissioner of Propaganda for the revolutionary
government of the South; as a member of the Committee of Twelve
he helped direct the Canton insurrection, saw plenty of
hand-to-hand fighting. His story of the Shanghai rising is a
compressed and fictionalized account of what actually happened.
At present Author Malraux lives in Paris, working for the
publishing house of Gallimard.</p>
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