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Title: Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine) by Andre Malraux ISBN: 0-679-72574-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 19 February, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Another Great French Novel Mangled by a Bad Translation
Comment: I am a native French speaker and a professor of French Literature. I love this novel and have a real bone to pick with this 1932 British translation, which refers to the hero-revolutionaries as "terrorists," a word which has come to mean something quite horrendous in America. Malraux's writing style is anything but stiff. It's the translator who chose stiff and stuffy words. Where there seems to be a tone of condescention from the translator, there is none whatsoever in the French. If anything, this is a very fluid novel, based on what Malraux considered an American style of novel writing. Fluid, fast-paced, character-driven. Why is this the only translation available to us in the US? Because the publisher probably didn't have to pay a copywright fee to publish this translation. It's a sin of greed -- how ironic when this novel is basically about that very thing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Condition: Red
Comment: Andre Malraux became France's Minister of Culture but before that he wrote this and everything about his prose style and characters are so very civilized. Thats what makes the events described here all the more shocking. From Old Man Gisors, the opium smoking oracle, to the young Chinese student revolutionaries to the French gambler to the assassin everything is told in so controlled a manner as to make these things seem impossible to happen. But they do. This is China on the eve of the Communist Revolution. The French have been busily at work doing business in the ancient land when suddenly the political climate changes. Each character is affected by these events in very personal ways. Malraux gets to the very core of each. His end to tell each persons story without prejudice to which side one is on. A very interesting technique. We understand all sides of the equation at once. Arresting, breathtaking fiction. Every character is real. Malraux did not rise to this level of performance again. Read this for the history and for the level eye which Malraux brings to it.
Rating: 5
Summary: There Aren't Enough Stars
Comment: Andre Malraux, is in most book stores found with the philosophers,"The Fate of Man" however shows that he is also a novelist and a scolar of the first order. I don't know how many of the people whom I know that have read this book who consider it one of the best they ever read. One needn't agree with him to appreciate his skill as a thinker and a story teller.
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Title: The Stories We Live By: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self by Dan P. McAdams ISBN: 1572301880 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 03 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Voices of Silence by Andre Malraux, Stuart Gilbert ISBN: 0691018219 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 1978 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Red Star over China by Edgar R. Snow ISBN: 0802150934 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 1973 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre ISBN: 0679725164 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Plays (Penguin Classics) by Peter Carson, Richard Gilman, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ISBN: 0140447334 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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