by André Malraux · France Loisirs / Bernard Grasset · tapa dura · ISBN 9782744103315
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«La voie royale» is the novel by André Malraux, published by France Loisirs / Bernard Grasset in hardcover (187 pages, in French).
Claude Vannec, a young archaeologist, and Perken, a seasoned adventurer, travel through the Indochinese jungle along the route that linked Angkor with the Menam river valley. They seek treasures in forgotten Khmer temples, but the expedition becomes a struggle against nature and hostile villages, as well as a reflection on destiny and death.
The novel was originally published in 1930, the year it won the Prix Interallié; this edition, part of the Grands auteurs collection, dates from 1996.
For readers of twentieth-century French literature and adventure novels with an existential undertone.
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).
