Memoirs

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372 pp. "These memoirs are one of the most widely read books in Paris, and their publication was preceded by a great deal of journalistic discussion concerning the propriety of an ex-wife's revealing the early, and perhaps best-forgotten, years of Andre Malraux, a man now grown so great. But the Clara Malraux who as a young girl scandalized her bourgeois family by traveling openly with her lover and then marrying him, a man of no visible means and few prospects, remains equally intransigent today. To her critics she answers only that her life is as she lived it, and that, in speaking of it as it really was, she remains true to herself. The result is that we see the young Malrauxes plain." Show more