by André Malraux · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253010357
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«La Voie royale» is the adventure novel by André Malraux, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (226 pages, in French).
In 1920s Indochina, archaeologist Claude Vannec seeks fortune by looting bas-reliefs from the temples of the Khmer royal road, hidden by the jungle. With the adventurer Perken, he ventures into the Cambodian jungle on a lawless expedition. A partially autobiographical novel, it reflects on ambition, death, and the human condition.
The novel was originally published in 1930 and won the Prix Interallié; this edition includes a preface, notes, and commentary by Christiane Moatti.
For readers of adventure novels and twentieth-century French literature, with a jungle setting in Southeast Asia.
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).
