Alliance Française de Bhopal, Indo-French cultural centre, in collaboration with the French Embassy in India is organising a lecture on French novelist and politician André Malraux by Peter Tame on Saturday at 06:30 pm at its premises.
Notably, André Malraux was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister of Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel la Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information (1945–1946) and subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969).
At an early age, André Malraux became interested in the East. He traveled there in 1920 and visited India for the first time between 1929 and 1931. He returned several times during his life. André Malraux’s relations with India are complex and multiple. All his life he was attracted by the Indian culture and thought. Many books Malraux illustrate the attraction and influence.
On the other hand, Peter Tame is a specialist of literary representation of ideology and political reality of the twentieth century. In particular, he focuses on the novel of the Entre-Deux-War, the Second World War and the Occupation.
This lecture series provides the discovery and a detailed examination of these relations through malruciens writings.