ACTUALITY OF ANDRE MALRAUX

Abstract

André Malraux was aware that he lived in a singular time, “the time in limbo”: occidental civili- zation is initiates in the post-modern. Is Malraux’s manner of considering the world out-of-date? On the contrary, André Malraux’s thoughts and ideas in his speeches and autobiographical writing voice present day concerns. When he celebrates the Republic and its values – liberty, justice, fra- ternity – ; when he defends his cultural policies, he actually fights for humanism. Due to coherence between the idea and its realization, between ideology and the action it leads, he gives back to mankind the best place in a world which tries to deny this