by André Malraux · El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669437
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«La esperanza» is the novel by André Malraux, published by El País in hardback (521 pages, in Spanish).
Set against the Spanish Civil War, it follows a varied group of Republican fighters. The novel combines action, dialogue and meditation to explore solidarity, political commitment and the meaninglessness of war, in a fragmentary style that reflects the urgency of events.
Work originally published as L'Espoir in 1937; this 2002 edition belongs to the Clásicos del Siglo XX collection.
For readers interested in the Spanish Civil War and 20th-century European fiction.
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).
