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CULTURE – CARDIOGRAMS: Malraux - Witness and Prophet

Author(s): Ernesto Sabato
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: existentialist dialectic; existentialism; crisis; Cervantes; Karl Jaspers; Don Juan; impossible redemption; Dialectica existentialista; existentialism; criza;

Summary/Abstract: E. Sabato writes about Malraux’s contradictions and spiritual anxiety. The writer’s philosophy reveals itself not from his Journal or his essays, but from his novels. Malraux’s drama is that of a rationalist who tries to think in a rational way. Like many other great writers, Malraux doesn’t try to prove anything through his books, rather he reaches out for the sense of existence by confronting people with their own destiny. Sabato thinks that without knowing it, Malraux was an existentialist in his entire literary work. His characters go through a permanent crisis, trying to hold together all the opposite aspects. Thus, Malraux is not only a ruthless witness, but also a prophet speaking about an impossible redemption.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 41-42
  • Page Range: 52-54
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Romanian