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Clara Malraux's Le Bruit de nos pas : Biography and the Question of Women in the "Case of Malraux"

1984; University of Hawaii Press; Volume: 7; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/bio.2010.0630

1529-1456

Alfred F. Goessl, Roland A. Champagne,

Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Clara Malraux's Memoirs give us reason to re-introduce history into the myth of André Malraux in order to distinguish myth from man. "The Case of Malraux" was a mythological construct of André Malraux as the ideal "new man" of the 1930's. Malraux's own biography needs to be qualified and clarified as a result of Clara's published memoirs. In fact, Clara's relationship to André allows us to distinguish the man André from the legend of Malraux. Through corroboration and/or modification from other contemporaries of the Malraux's, Clara's Memoirs assist us in understanding the role of women in André's life and what those women tell us about André the man.