by André Malraux · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422686828
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Man's Fate is a 1933 novel by André Malraux. The novel is set in China in 1927, during the failed Communist coup attempt against Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist government. The novel explores themes such as the human condition, revolution, death, and the meaning of life. Through its characters, Malraux examines the complexities of political struggle and the consequences of violence and betrayal.
Georges André Malraux was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (1933) is set during the 1927 Shanghai uprising and won the Prix Goncourt; L'Espoir 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. 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).
