by André Malraux · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070360208
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«L'espoir» is the war novel by André Malraux, published by Folio in paperback (608 pages, in French).
The novel addresses the Spanish Civil War from the Republican perspective and draws on Malraux's own experience as commander of an air squadron. The narrative combines scenes of aviation, strategy and life at the front with reflection on solidarity, heroism and hope amid the conflict.
The work was originally published in 1937 and the present edition dates from 1972. It is number 20 in the Folio collection.
Recommended for readers of French fiction and war literature, with particular interest in the Spanish Civil War and twentieth-century classics.
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).
