by André Malraux · Edhasa · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435000246
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«La condición humana» is the novel by French writer André Malraux, published by Edhasa in hardcover (292 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Shanghai during the communist insurrection of 1927, the story follows several characters caught in the struggle between the communists and the forces of Chiang Kai-shek. Amid violence and repression, the protagonists face moral and existential dilemmas: revolution, commitment, death, and the meaning of life.
The original French work, La Condition Humaine, won the Prix Goncourt in 1933. Spanish edition with translation by César A. Comet, Narrativas contemporáneas collection (no. 36).
For readers of twentieth-century French literature and historical fiction with a political backdrop.
Georges André Malraux was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (1933) is set during the 1927 Shanghai uprising and won the Prix Goncourt; L'Espoir arose from his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. After the Second World War he abandoned fiction and wrote several works on art history, collected as La Psychologie de l'Art. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first cultural affairs minister during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969).
