Jean Malaquais

Vladimir Malacki , known as Jean Malaquais , born with Warsaw in 1908 and died in Geneva the December 22nd 1998, is a novelist and essay writer of Polish origin and French language.

Biography

Jew, Communist of left, arrived to France in 1930, like George Orwell, it works in the middle of the foreign proletarians in Provence and with Paris, where it would have exerted more than one hundred trades. Assiduous reader of the Library Holy-Genevieve, it devours whole rays. Discovering Andre Gide through terrestrial Foods and Fens , it maintain with him a correspondence 1935 to 1950. Gide assistance to find its style and assistance also financially, which does not prevent it to reproach Gide “a generosity intended to alleviate its bad conscience of rich man”.

Combatant during the War of Spain, it obtains to the Prix Renaudot in 1939 for the Javaneses , account of his experiment in the foreign minors.

Its family is destroyed in the camps hitlériens. He is mobilized, against his liking, during the Second world war. In 1943, it leaves for the Mexico, then for the the United States, where it acquires American nationality.

It takes part in 1942 and after the war in the group of the communist Left of France (GCF) with Marc Chirik, Clara Geoffroy, Robert Salama known as “Mousso”, Serge Bricanier, Louis Évrard, Pierre Bessaignet.

Works

  • the Javaneses , Denoël, Paris, 1939.
  • Newspaper of war , Editions of the French House, New York, 1943
  • “Two news of Jean Malaquais”, in new Works 2 , Editions of the French House, New York, 1943.
  • Changes of course , accounts, Editions of the French House, New York, 1944.
  • Planet without visa , the Pre one with the Clerks, Paris, 1947.
  • Gaffeur , novel, Buchet-Chastel, Paris, 1953.
  • Søren Kierkegaard: Faith and Paradox , 10/18, UGE, Paris, 1971.
  • “Named the Louis Aragon or the professional patriot”, “the Equal ones”, supplement with Masses , February 1947, n° 7. Republication, Syllepse Editions, collection “Archipelagoes of surrealism”, December 1998.
  • Correspondence (1935-1950) of Andre Gide and Jean Malaquais, Phébus, Paris, 2000.
; Translations
  • Norman To net: the Naked ones and deaths (The Naked and the Dead) , foreword of Andre Maurois, Albin Michel, Paris, 1950.
  • Mircea Eliade: Occultism, sorcery and modes cultural (farming Occultism, witchcraft and fashions) , Gallimard, Paris, 1978.

External bonds

  • Biographical note
  • Comment of '' Planète without visa ''
  • Comment of the '' Javanese ''
  • a new great writer: Jean Malaquais Criticizes Javanese by Leon Trotsky, August 7th, 1939 (extracted from Littérature and revolution )
  • Michel Olivier, Histoire of the communist left of France , Éditions of the CCI.

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