André Malraux, L'espoir [Hope]

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L’Espoir

, André Malraux’s fifth novel published in December 1937, is simultaneously a work of committed literature, and a meditation on the problem of action and on the human condition more generally. It was born of Malraux’s own involvement on the side of the Spanish Republic during that nation’s civil war (1936-1939). Along with Malraux’s efforts to establish an international, Republican air squadron and his propaganda work in North America,

L’Espoir

was originally conceived as a means of fostering support for the Spanish Republic in those countries where governments had adopted a policy of non-intervention. Despite this propagandistic intent, however, and in keeping with Malraux’s earlier novelistic treatments of the revolutionary left,

L’Espoir

eschews the techniques…

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Citation: Hurcombe, Martin. "L'espoir". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 May 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11600, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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