André Malraux vs. André Gide
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
André Malraux
1901 – 1976
Georges André Malraux was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (1933) is set during the 1927 Shanghai uprising and won the Prix Goncourt; L'Espoir arose from his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. After the Second World War he abandoned fiction and wrote several works on art history, collected as La Psychologie de l'Art.
"One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say."
André Gide
1869 – 1951
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars.
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
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