by André Malraux · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070400652
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«La Condition Humaine» is the novel by André Malraux, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (411 pages, in French).
Set in Shanghai in 1927, the novel follows several characters caught up in the communist insurrection: the intellectual Kyo Gisors, the militant Ch'en Ta Erh, the adventurer Baron de Clappique and the Russian revolutionary Katov. Malraux interweaves their stories to reflect on solitude, freedom and the meaning of existence in a turbulent world.
Novel awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1933. This 1996 edition includes the complete text accompanied by notes and a documentary dossier; it belongs to the Folio Plus collection.
For readers of French literature and historical fiction with a political backdrop; the dossier also makes it suitable for studying the work.
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).
