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Article: Malraux.(Andre Malraux)
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- Quadrant
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- October 1, 1997
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I: Malraux in the Pantheon(1)
This story is somewhat stale, I am afraid, but it still has a point. In a crowded church, the preacher ascends the pulpit and pronounces a moving sermon. Everybody is crying. One man, however, remains dry-eyed. Being asked the reason for his strange insensitivity, he explains: "I am not from this parish."
I am not French, but French is my mother language and, when I am in France, I always feel completely at home -- with only one reservation: whenever the issue of Malraux crops up, the evidence hits me: I am not from this parish.
I experienced it for the first time twenty years ago. In November 1976, when ...