Man’s Hope

novel by Malraux

Also known as: “Days of Hope”, “L’Espoir”

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Man's Hope is a novel by André Malraux published in 1937. It is an epic and lyrical account of the Spanish Civil War. The novel evokes the passionate debates among revolutionary factions about the best way to fight for the revolutionary ideal. Malraux's works often dramatize the heroism and glamour of revolutionary fraternity.1

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André Malraux
Life
His novel L’Espoir (Man’s Hope), based on his experiences in Spain, was published in 1937. A motion-picture version of L’Espoir that Malraux produced and directed in Barcelona in 1938 was not shown in France until after the country’s liberation at the end of World War II.
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His novel L’Espoir (Man’s Hope), based on his experiences in Spain, was published in 1937. A motion-picture version of L’Espoir that Malraux produced and directed in Barcelona in 1938 was not shown in France until after the country’s liberation at the end of World War II.
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French literature
Malraux, Gide, and others
…in 1927, while L’Espoir (1937; Man’s Hope) is a lyrical and epic account of the Spanish Civil War, evoking the passionate contemporary debates among revolutionary factions about the best way to fight for the revolutionary ideal.
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…in 1927, while L’Espoir (1937; Man’s Hope) is a lyrical and epic account of the Spanish Civil War, evoking the passionate contemporary debates among revolutionary factions about the best way to fight for the revolutionary ideal.
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Spanish Civil War
…the war were the novels Man’s Hope (1938) by André Malraux, Adventures of a Young Man (1939) by John Dos Passos, and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway; George Orwell’s memoir Homage to Catalonia
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…the war were the novels Man’s Hope (1938) by André Malraux, Adventures of a Young Man (1939) by John Dos Passos, and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway; George Orwell’s memoir Homage to Catalonia
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