Frases de André Malraux

André Malraux fue un novelista, aventurero y político francés. Se trata de un personaje representativo de la cultura francesa que giró en torno al segundo tercio del siglo XX, y en su vida se confunden los elementos novelados del escritor con la expresión del hombre público, la propaganda del político y la realidad de los hechos históricos que vivió. Esta mezcolanza ha llevado a alguno de sus críticos, como el biógrafo Olivier Todd, a considerar a Malraux "el primer escritor de su generación que logró edificar de una manera eficaz su propio mito".

André padecía el síndrome de Tourette, una afección que provocaba las características muecas, guiños y tics que tanto le distinguieron en vida durante sus apariciones públicas y entrevistas.

Registrado al nacer con el nombre Georges-André Malraux, su padre, Fernand, era un agente de bolsa apasionado por los inventos y la mecánica, que primero abandonó a su familia, hecho que le marcó. Se casaría otra vez, y tuvo de ese matrimonio dos hijos: Roland y Claude Malraux, y posteriormente se suicidó. André pasó una infancia acomodada en Bondy, suburbio de clase media en las afueras de París, en compañía de su madre Berthe, su tía y su abuela, quienes regentaban una pastelería. A pesar de no sufrir estrecheces económicas y de disponer de una educación privada y un reducido grupo de buenos amigos, el escritor resumió, en las primeras líneas de sus Antimemorias, aquella etapa de su vida: Casi todos los escritores que conozco recuerdan con cariño su infancia, yo odio la mía. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. noviembre 1901 – 23. noviembre 1976  •  Otros nombres André-Georges Malraux
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Frases célebres de André Malraux

“El siglo XXI será espiritual o no será.”

André Malraux

Variante: «El siglo XXI será místico o no será».
Fuente: San Miguel de Pablos, José Luis. La rebelión de la consciencia. Editorial Kairós, 2014. ISBN 9788499884066, p. 102.
Fuente: Schlüter Rodés, Ana María; González Faus, José Ignacio. Mística oriental y mística cristiana. Editorial Sal Terrae, 1998. ISBN 9788429312812, p. 9.

Frases de hombres de André Malraux

André Malraux Frases y Citas

“La tradición no se hereda, se conquista.”

André Malraux

Fuente: Eusebio, Sebastián Arribas. Enciclopedia básica de la vida. Cultivalibros. 2010. ISBN 978-84-99233-42-0, p. 413.

André Malraux: Frases en inglés

“What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”

André Malraux libro Antimémoires

Antimémoires, preface (1967)
This preface paraphrases a line of dialogue from his own earlier work: "A man is what he hides: a miserable little pile of secrets."
Original: (fr) L'homme est ce qu'il cache : un misérable petit tas de secrets.

“Once the masterpiece has emerged, the lesser works surrounding it fall into place; and it then gives the impression of having been led up to and foreseeable, though actually it is inconceivable — or, rather, it can only be conceived of once it is there for us to see it.”

André Malraux

Part III, Chapter VI
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
Contexto: Once the masterpiece has emerged, the lesser works surrounding it fall into place; and it then gives the impression of having been led up to and foreseeable, though actually it is inconceivable — or, rather, it can only be conceived of once it is there for us to see it. It is not a scene that has come alive, but a latent potentiality that has materialized. Suppose that one of the world's masterpieces were to disappear, leaving no trace behind it, not even a reproduction; even the completest knowledge of its maker's other works would not enable the next generation to visualize it. All the rest of Leonardo's oeuvre would not enable us to visualize the Mona Lisa; all Rembrandt's, the Three Crosses or The Prodigal Son; all Vermeer's, The Love Letter; all Titian's, the Venice Pietà; all medieval sculpture, the Chartres Kings or the Naumburg Uta. What would another picture by the Master of Villeneuve look like? How could even the most careful study of The Embarkation for Cythera, or indeed that of all Watteau's other works conjure up L'Enseigne de Gersaint, had it disappeared?

“Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it — Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism.”

André Malraux

Part IV, Chapter VII
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
Contexto: Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in them, but those of life. Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it — Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism.

“It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.”

André Malraux

Part IV, Chapter I
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
Contexto: An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.

“Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.”

André Malraux

Part 2, Section 2, Chapter 12
L'espoir [Man's Hope] (1938)
Contexto: There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one, and that is to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

“The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety.”

André Malraux

André Malraux, Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951) Part IV, Chapter VI
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
Contexto: The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.

“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell.”

André Malraux

Section 2
La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)

“Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.”

André Malraux

As quoted in Paris, Paris : Journey Into the City of Light‎ (2005) by David Downie, p. 87

“Art is a revolt against fate.”

André Malraux

Part IV, Chapter VII
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)

“Freedom is not an exchange — it is freedom.”

André Malraux

La liberté n'est pas un échange, c'est la liberté.
La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)

“If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?”

André Malraux

La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)

“One can like that the meaning of the word "art" is to try to make men aware of the greatness that they ignore in them.”

André Malraux

André Malraux, Préface du Temps du mépris (1935), Malraux citations sur www. fondationandremalraux. org http://fondationandremalraux.org/index.php/citations/

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