by André Malraux · Editorial Argos Vergara, 1977, Barcelona · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470173431
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Los Conquistadores is a novel by French writer André Malraux, published in 1928. The novel is set in the 1920s and tells the story of a group of revolutionaries trying to seize power in Canton, China. The novel is narrated from the point of view of Garine, a young French doctor who joins the revolutionaries. Garine is attracted to the revolutionary cause, but is also tormented by his own doubts and contradictions. Los Conquistadores is a complex and ambiguous novel that explores themes such as revolution, colonialism, identity, and the human condition.
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).
