- Paperback: 184 pages
- Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd; Tra edition (27 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843914069
- ISBN-13: 978-1843914068
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.2 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,007,937 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'For me, this novel is a passionate invocation to live every second. However, I take it simultaneously as a warning of the desperate consequences, both personal and global, of being so ''furiously alive''.' --Rachel Seiffert
'This short novel exemplifies most of Malraux's lifelong preoccupations: colonialism, art, and the human condition.' --The Bloomsbury Review
'This short novel exemplifies most of Malraux's lifelong preoccupations: colonialism, art, and the human condition.' --The Bloomsbury Review
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Claude and Perken meet on a liner heading for Indo-China, and throw in their lots together to form a dual expedition into the perilous Cambodian jungles of the 'Way of the Kings'. Claude, a young Frenchman, is seeking adventure, fame, and money; Perken, an experienced Dutch explorer, is returning to his own little patch of Siam, aiming to recapture his former masculine pride, and appalled by the coming of age and its effects. The two face death at every turn from the seething forest and 'bestial' tribes people, but are driven to leave their stamp on a world on the eve of its demise, in defiance of the advance of the railroad and 'civilisation', and the term of their own fragile lives.
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A classic adventure of a Cambodian expedition for fortune
21 April 2006
Format:Paperback
Andre Malraux's THE WAY OF THE KINGS provides an excellent piece of classic literature in telling of two who decide to embark on an expedition into Cambodia. A young Frenchman seeks adventure and fortune while the veteran Dutch explorer seeks to recapture his former pride: together they face danger and uncommon revelations.
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juvenilia
5 July 2007
Format:Paperback
The only reason to read this book is to complete your tour through Malraux. Just look at the author photo and you'll know all about the sort of bombastic, turgid existential nonsense that fills its pages.
How the author of the foreword could describe the novel as a "fierce critique of colonialism" is truly baffling. The southeast asians are so thoroughly dehumanized that most readers will think of Conrad. Malraux, though, has nothing like Conrad's control of narrative.
One thought: The novel concludes with a kind of extended death scene, a meditation on last moments more characteristic, ironically, of the cultural wisdom found in the traditions that its heroes are vandalizing.
How the author of the foreword could describe the novel as a "fierce critique of colonialism" is truly baffling. The southeast asians are so thoroughly dehumanized that most readers will think of Conrad. Malraux, though, has nothing like Conrad's control of narrative.
One thought: The novel concludes with a kind of extended death scene, a meditation on last moments more characteristic, ironically, of the cultural wisdom found in the traditions that its heroes are vandalizing.
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