Pocket: Andre Malraux, "Une Vie Dans Le Siecle" (English, French and French Edition) by Lacouture

by Jean Lacouture

Malraux a-t-il agi pour trouver dans l'action la source de son inspiration ? A-t-il écrit parce que l'action ne lui donnait ni la réponse à une certaine exigence d'absolu, ni l'accomplissement que cherchent les conquérants ? Sa vie et son œuvre restent profondément liées : vie construite comme une œuvre, œuvre pantelante comme une vie.

Cette biographie retrace l'histoire d'un homme qui, à force de vouloir " transformer en conscience la plus large expérience possible ", a vécu plus totalement son temps qu'aucun de ses contemporains. Ainsi, cette " vie dans le siècle " peut-elle être vue comme une vie du siècle lui-même.

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Jean Lacouture is a journalist, historian and author. He is particularly famous for his biographies.y

Jean Lacouture began his career in journalism in 1950 in "Combat" as diplomatic redactor. He joined Le Monde in 1951. In 1953, he worked in Cairo for France Soir, before returning to Le Monde as director for the overseas services, and grand reporter (the highest title in French journalism) until 1975.

Politically engaged on the Left, Lacouture supported decolonisation, and Mitterrand from 1981. He worked for the Nouvel Observateur, and L'Histoire. He is interviewed in the 1968 documentary film about the Vietnam War entitled "In the Year of the Pig".

Lacouture was also director for publication at Seuil, one of the main French publishers, from 1961 to 1982, and professor at the IEP of Paris between 1969 and 1972.

He is mainly known to the public because of his biographies, including the lives of Ho Chi Minh, Nasser, Léon Blum, De Gaulle, François Mauriac, Pierre Mendès-France, Mitterrand, Montesquieu, Montaigne, Malraux, Germaine Tillion, Champollion, Rivière, Stendhal and Kennedy.

A dedicated music lover, Lacouture is also president of a society of devotees of Georges Bizet.