by André Malraux · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253010272
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«Les Conquérants» is the novel by André Malraux, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (256 pages, in French).
The action takes place in Canton, China, during the political turmoil of the 1920s. The novel follows Garine, a revolutionary who embodies the tension between action, lucidity and cynicism at the heart of an insurrection. Malraux portrays revolution not as an ideological programme, but as an extreme adventure in which individuals confront their own limits and the possibility of historical change. The work combines narrative drive with reflection on power and the human condition in a turbulent colonial context.
A reference work for readers of twentieth-century French literature and those interested in narrative with a historical and political background.
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).
