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Franklin Library leather edition of Andre Malraux's "Man's Fate," a Limited edition, Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier, one of the GREATEST BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY series, published in 1980. Bound in brown leather, the book has brown moire silk end leaves, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges----in near FINE Condition. Andre Malraux, who lived from 1901---1976, was a French novelist, essayist, and art-historian. In his Asian novels, Malraux used Asia as a stick to beat Europe with, as he argued that after World War I, the ideal of progress, of a Europe getting better and better for the general advancement of humanity was dead. As such, Malraux now argued that European civilization was faced with a Nietzschean void, a twilight world without God or progress, in which the old values had proven worthless and a sense of spirituality that had once existed was gone. An agnostic, but an intensely spiritual man, Malraux maintained what was needed was an "aesthetic spirituality" in which love of art and civilization would allow one to appreciate sacred life, a sensibility that was both tragic and awe-inspiring as one surveyed all of the cultural treasures of the world, a mystical sense of humanity's place in a universe that was as astonishingly beautiful as it was mysterious. Malraux argued that as death is inevitable and in a world devoid of meaning, which thus was "absurd," only art could offer meaning in an "absurd" world. In 1933 Malraux published "Man's Fate," a novel about the 1927 failed Communist rebellion in Shanghai. The work was awarded the 1933 Prix Goncourt. "Man's Fate" occurs during a 22-day period mostly in Shanghai, China and concerns the socialist insurrections and others involved in the conflict. 412 pages. I offer Combined shipping.
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