Malraux
André
[ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–76, French novelist, critic, and politician.
Contemporary Examples
“Our brothers in the Order of the Night,” Malraux called them—born into a tumultuous century and then destroyed by it.
France Honors Women … Finally Katie Baker February 21, 2014
A place that, as we have known since Malraux, is not a place of death but of life.
Treasures From the Pinault Collection Bernard-Henri Lévy June 11, 2009
noun
André (ɑ̃dre). 1901–76, French writer and statesman. His novels include La Condition humaine (1933) on the Kuomintang revolution (1927–28) and L’Espoir (1937) on the Spanish Civil War, in both of which events he took part. He also wrote on art, notably in Les Voix du silence (1951)
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