Malraux, Les noyers de l'Altenburg.
First French edition, with a dedication from Malraux.
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LM66
€120.00
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- Condition : good, very clean inside, minor traces of wear, cover slightly stained, with a small lack at the spine, uncut.
First edition in France after the original edition published in Switzerland in 1943. Beautiful autograph lettering, signed André Malraux. Limited edition, copy on Alfa.
Written during the German occupation of France (1940-1944), Les Noyers de l'Altenburg is an enigmatic novel that was to be part of a larger work entitled La Lutte avec l'ange. André Malraux claimed that the Gestapo had seized the second volume of this work, which he did not want to return to after the Second World War. In any case, the circumstances in which he wrote this novel - he had been demobilised after the defeat of France in 1940, escaping imprisonment in Germany - gave him time to reflect on the disaster of the defeated French army and on how different the future would necessarily be from the inter-war period. However radical the formula, to some extent France had ceased to exist, at least as it had been before the war. The republican space and ideological conflicts of the 1920s and 1930s were giving way to a new France, that of the French state under Marshal Philippe Pétain.
The Walnut Trees of Altenburg is without doubt André Malraux's best novel. Dense, profound and scintillating with Malrucian philosophical thought, it poses the most important questions about man, life and art that would occupy the rest of the career of this writer who became a politician after the war. Structured in five parts, the three main parts are framed by a 'prologue' and an 'epilogue'. After the "prologue" entitled "Camp de Chartres", set in June 1940, the first part recounts the imperialist adventure of Vincent Berger in Turkey. This is followed by the second part, the Altenburg Colloquy, and then, in the third part, Berger in the German gas attack on the Russian lines in Russia in 1915. The Epilogue tells of the accident to Vincent Berger's son, a soldier in a French army tank during the Blitzkrieg of 1940.
| Condition | Used - Acceptable |
|---|---|
| Language | France |
| Illustrated | No |
| Publicaton Date | Jan 1, 1948 |
| Year | 1948 |
| Author / Cartographer / Photographer | Malraux André |
| Editor | Gallimard |
| First edition | No |
| Signed edition | Yes |
| Signed binding | No |
| Armorial binding | No |
| Binding / Format | Softcover |
| Size | 22 x 14 cm |
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