MALRAUX, André

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MALRAUX, André
Typescript for the Antimemories. S. l. n. d. [ca. 1967]. 737 p. in-4, in 5 black and red cloth cardboard binders. Typescript set for the Antimémoires. First published in 1967, they constitute the first part of the Mirror of Limbo. Malraux, writer, traveller, great resistance fighter, evokes his memories of the war and the explorations of China and Indochina. "I escaped, in 1940, with the future chaplain of the Vercors. Shortly after the escape, we met again in the village of Drôme, where he was parish priest and where he used to give the Israelites baptismal certificates of all dates, on condition that they were baptized. " The Antimémoires claim more "autofiction" than simple autobiography by the presence of real elements tinged with fiction. It is a genre that has no pretension to truth. "The reader who would seek in the Antimemoirs the revelation of a secret about the author's life, his relationship with his mother and or his father for example, will surely be disappointed. There are few references to the author's personal life [...]. Thus it seems that Malraux, in this seemingly autobiographical tale, has tried to erase, paradoxically, everything that relates to his personal life. The Antimemoires can thus be considered, from this point of view, as anti-confessions. "(Khemiri.) Malraux centers his story around the encounter with other cultures and on a series of long interviews with de Gaulle, Nehru and Mao. The manuscript contains many words and passages that have been erased, additions and corrections autographed in blue ink. Rare tears without damage to the text. Moncef Khemiri. Antimemories between autobiography and auto-fiction. (available online: https://www.andremalraux. com/?p=2418).
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