by André Malraux · Argos Vergara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470178726
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«Los conquistadores» is the novel by André Malraux, published by Argos Vergara in paperback (236 pages, in Spanish).
In 1920s China, anti-colonial agitation shakes Canton: a group of revolutionaries seeks to free itself from foreign economic domination. Through the eyes of a narrator, Malraux portrays the world of conspiracies, double agents and violence that accompanies the revolution, and confronts ideals with the murky methods of its protagonists.
1980 edition in the Libros DB collection (no. 17), translated by Fabián García-Prieto. Definitive version; final note from 1949. Original French: Les conquérants (1928).
For readers of historical and political fiction interested in French narrative about republican China in the 20th century.
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).
