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Original Title:	La Condition humaine
Edition Language:	French
Characters:	Chen Ta Erh, Kyo Gisors, Baron Clappique, Old Gisors, May Gisors, Katow, Hemmelrich, Yu Hsuan, Kama, Ferral, Konig, Suan
Setting:	Shanghai,1927(China)
Literary Awards:	Prix Goncourt (1933)

Man's Fate

André Malraux

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 4205 Users | 240 Reviews

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Title	:	Man's Fate
Author	:	André Malraux
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	February 19th 1990 by Vintage (first published April 28th 1933)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. China. Philosophy

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As explosive and immediate today as when it was first published in 1933, 'Man's Fate' ('La Condition Humaine'), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the Chinese Revolution, foreshadows the contemporary world and brings to life the profound meaning of the revolutionary impulse for the individuals involved. As a study of conspiracy and conspirators, of men caught in the desperate clash of ideologies, betrayal, expediency, and free will, Andre Malraux's novel remains unequaled. Translated from the French by Haakon M. Chevalier

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Ratings: 3.76 From 4205 Users | 240 Reviews

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Why would I give five stars to a book I did not enjoy, did not like, felt nothing special about and came very close to not finishing it? Because late in my life I had come to realize this: a translation can create and it can destroy. That the act of translating a literary work is not a neutral and mechanical act but a truly creative one. A bad translation can mangle a work beyond recognition; a good translation--as GR's Cynthia Nine attests vis-a-vis Coelho's regurgitations--is capable of

I remember loving this book when I read it in my twenties. I seemed then a terrifically romantic and dramatic rendering of what it means to part of a revolutionary movement. The opening chapter remains a knockout, but I'm afraid it otherwise hasn't held up that well. Malraux overwrites so many passages and seems to infects his characters with an existentialist dread. He tells rather than shows what they're feeling so that little of what the characters experience seems earned. I read this after

I read Andre Malrauxs Mans Fate, one of those novels Ive really wanted to read for the longest time, some time ago. Its supposed to be one of the best fictional accounts of the Chinese revolution, the blurbs read, with a focus on the failed Shanghai Insurrection of 1927, which was brutally crushed by Chiang Kai-sheks troops. But now I feel shortchanged. For some reason, I felt that the novel was a bit overrated.Yes, there were not a few highlights, particularly in the first part leading to the

Read it many moons ago. Loved it. It reads like a thriller: the Chinese civil war of the 1930s set in Shanghai. Questions about the need or the justification for violence to better a political situation are raised among the really well-drawn characters. Is political violence really worth it or is it better to remain detached and get on with one's life in the acceptance that no matter what political setup prevails, people will still get it wrong because they are imperfect to start with? I am

What can I say? Translated to Dutch by the author's friend Edgar Du Perron. Written in 1933. These are facts.This is, without doubt, the richest, most dense literature I have ever read. Every word seems to have meaning. Every sentence insists itself on the paper and is in a constant struggle with it's brethren to be the most beautiful and most meaningful one. Reading Malraux is not something you do for leisure. Ask Camus and Sartre (or Du Perron and Ter Braak). This is for those who want to grab

Man's fate, you'll get out of it altered, i'll put it next to "the stranger" by Camus...Brotherhood, love and hope find their reflection in the absurd, from individual to mass level, yet Malraux wont bash in your teeth, on the contrary he will leave you with an understanding, a certain lucidity and acceptance of our faith in it's darkest paroxysms. the book is filled with heartfelt situations, deciphered psychological behaviors brought to light in all their simplicity and bare naked humanity. a

It's no small endeavor to write a book titled "La condition humaine". Malraux is a towering figure though, and his book was chosen as the first edited in one of the main french pocket collections (it's the Folio n°1). It's a serious book, largely political, politics not as a game but as a desperate struggle for dignity and existence. More generally, it's a book about life when it is dedicated to death. The topic has aged: in the first part, an uprising of the communists in 1920s China, in the