André Malraux

French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)

AI overview

André Malraux was a French writer, art theorist, and politician whose novels and essays explored profound questions about human meaning and the power of art, while his life also included involvement in major 20th-century political struggles. He matters because his work significantly influenced modern thinking about literature and art history, and his career exemplified the engagement of intellectuals in the major events of their time.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 3 November 1901
Died: 23 November 1976
Works: 305

Top works

Le surnaturel
Lunes en papier
La voie royale
The fascist threat to culture
Israel

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Writing · Paris, France

Georges André Malraux (3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first cultural affairs minister during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969).…

Known for

The Century of Icons — Self (archive footage)2022
De Gaulle, le monarque et le Parlement — Self (archive footage)2020
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer — Self - Writer (archive footage)2019
Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français — Self (archive footage)2019
1958: Those Who Said No — Self (archive footage)2018
De Gaulle, the Last King of France — Self (archive footage)2017
De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile — Self (archive footage)2012
The Minister — Self (voice) (archive footage)2011
30 millions d'amis — Self1976
Les Deux mémoires1974

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1901
Active to: 1976

Discography

André Malraux: Grands discours 1946–19732004

Discogs

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 138
Total plays: 1,120

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,355x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,746x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,374x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

“No one can endure his own solitude.”
“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison we can fashion images of ourselves sufficiently powerful to deny our nothingness.”
“The human mind invents its Puss-in-Boots and its coaches that change into pumpkins at midnight because neither the believer nor the atheist is completely satisfied with appearances.”
“What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
“Our civilization … is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.”
“Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Wikidata facts

Image: André Malraux, 1974, photo41.jpg

Show 6 more facts

Commons category: André Malraux
date of birth: 1901-11-03
date of death: 1976-11-23
Commons gallery: André Malraux
name in native language: André Malraux
birth name: Georges André Malraux

Sources (14)

via Wikidata · CC0

~36 min read

Article

Georges André Malraux (/mælˈroʊ/ mal-ROH; French: [ʒɔʁʒ ɑ̃dʁe malʁo]; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) is set during the 1927 Shanghai uprising and won the Prix Goncourt; L'Espoir (Man's Hope, 1937) arose from his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. After the Second World War he abandoned fiction and wrote several works on art history, collected as La Psychologie de l'Art (The Voices of Silence, 1953). He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first cultural affairs minister during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969).

Early years