Fighting Lazarus

Prior to open this book, I knew Dandre Malraux that low that our century caricatures of filing almighty wants us to swallow at all costs. And I have supped enough of the little snakes twenty-first century believed to have finished with the grandeur, beauty and truth.

For Malraux, truth is all that is verifiable. At lheure where tiny fanatics of all stripes invest space media, reading Malraux is a real antidote. His speeches have, mutatis mutandis, the vehemence and laura funeral orations of Bossuet. Malraux lagnostique knows quon never déprend is the Sacred without losing what he calls our divine part and still be won-won.

Man repeatedly hurt in his soul and his flesh by the suicide or death of the closest things (his father, wife and son), Malraux stood firm and quun rock in the water removed. It has survived one of the darkest ages that are of mans memory. The twentieth century saw the black blood groove of the First World War; the Spanish Steps and its war graves (in this regard, it is good to read the great cemeteries under the moon Georges Bernanos, the relentless and terrible indictment against the cowardice and complicity in Spanish Leglise the massacres perpetrated by Franco and his henchmen) ; the death camps and their ghostly procession dombrés; the atomic bombs dropped like poisonous fruit above dHiroshima and Nagasaki; the generals' putsch in Algiers which he was with de Gaulle and others, right in the firing line ...

Politics, culture (speeches, articles, interviews, from 1925 to 1975) is a book that brings together all the Malraux fights starting with that of the young adult who, early on, gave his support to the Annamite: the Vietnamese community whose members although under French tutelage lIndochine (ironically) not navaient the right to go to study in France
Throughout his life, the author of The hope was to be a rebel who fought for sest that the man can maintain a humane and dignified face.

Arts advocate, André Malraux has never established a dichotomy between politics and culture, as the life of the city is made of culture, in the full sense of the word. Dailleurs, dualism so dear to our Western thought not navait his favor. Malraux saw further, beyond anything that reduces and impedes the man in its most vital impulses.

Malraux is not French history that a large name, as this is a loaded style déclairs. In a time when the official culture reached its lowest, it is all-important to delve into reading fights Lazarus (a title of his last works) that will put every effort to get him out of his grave feeling greatness that lives in the heart of every man. To cross the threshold of his thought, here undoubtedly the most beautiful moon gates available. Our company has the permanent mockery already now buried in people younger and older interest in politics. One of the miracles of this book (not least) is that it literally fertilized and resurrected my political consciousness. May he also be true for any goodwill drive.

Thibault Marconnet
November 23, 2014