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malraux: thundering cliches on the trail of Eternity

Andre Malraux and his Metamorphosis of the Gods. Original and redundant, simultaeneously brilliant and a mass of contradictions… …It must be that Malraux is misled by his basic notion of art as an antidestiny, a comfort against the thought of … Continue reading

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what is that “enigmatic power?”

Andre Malraux sought the key to man’s fate by a philosophical study of all the world’s art… …All of these people are touched by “that enigmatic power which unites for us in a common presence the statues of the most … Continue reading

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the breathless historical present

Andre Malraux sought the key to man’s fate by a philosophical study of all the world’s art in his Metamorphosis of the Gods… …Writing almost continuously in the breathless, historical present, Malraux began by reporting a fact: the discovery during … Continue reading

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