Malraux

[ mal-roh ]

noun

1. An·dré [ah, n, -, drey], 1901–76, French novelist, critic, and politician.

Malraux

/ malro /

noun

1. MalrauxAndré19011976MFrenchWRITING: writerPOLITICS: statesman André (ɑ̃dre). 1901–76, French writer and statesman. His novels include La Condition humaine (1933) on the Kuomintang revolution (1927–28) and L'Espoir (1937) on the Spanish Civil War, in both of which events he took part. He also wrote on art, notably in Les Voix du silence (1951)

Example Sentences

"Our brothers in the Order of the Night," Malraux called them—born into a tumultuous century and then destroyed by it.

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A place that, as we have known since Malraux, is not a place of death but of life.

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