Jean Malaquais

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Jean Malaquais


Born
in Warsaw, Poland
April 11, 1908

Died
December 22, 1998


Jean Malaquais was a French novelist. He was born as Wladimir Jan Pavel Malacki in Warsaw in 1908 of a non-religious Polish family of Jewish descent.

In 1926, he left Poland, traveling in Eastern Europe and the Middle East; he wrote: "I had the feeling that the end of the world was approaching in Poland, so I wanted to discover the life of other lands before it disappeared entirely. Morally and intellectually I was a tramp, a companion of the dispossessed." He settled in France, where he worked as a laborer, and adopted the name of Jean Malaquais (which he took from the Quai Malaquais). He was associated with, though not formally a member of, several French leftist organizations, including the Trotskyist Communist League, and during the Span
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Planet ohne Visum

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Os Javaneses

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War Diary

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Correspondance 1949-1986

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Men from nowhere.

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soren kierkegaard

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Coups de barre

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le nommé Louis Aragon ou le...

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La courte paille

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“There are no answers. There are only questions.”
Jean Malaquais