by André Malraux · RBA. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447325962
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Los Conquistadores is a novel by French writer André Malraux, published in 1928. The story is set in Canton during the 1920s, amidst the political and social turmoil of revolutionary China. The novel explores themes such as colonialism, revolution, ideology, and the human condition through the eyes of its characters, who become involved in the struggle for power and social transformation.
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).
