Man's Fate. (La Condition Humaine). Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier.

Published by New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934

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First edition in English of this novel set during the failed 1927 Communist revolution in Shanghai. It was first published in French the previous year, and won the 1933 Goncourt Prize. The dust jacket blurb prints a review by Leon Trotsky: "This is a novel of human destinies and personal passions to which the revolution imparts a breaking-point force. The individualist and pessimist rises up finally over individualism and over pessimism. Only a great superhuman purpose for which man is ready to pay the price of his life gives meaning to personal existence - this is the final import of the novel which is free from philosophic didacticism and remains from beginning to end a true work of art". A translation by Alistair MacDonald was published in London later the same year. Octavo. Original light brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in dark blue, top edge dark blue, other edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. A handful of bumps to extremities; jacket unclipped, lightly soiled and toned, spine browned, short closed tears to feet of flap folds: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.…

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Title
Man's Fate. (La Condition Humaine). Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier.
Author
MALRAUX, André.
Publisher
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934
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1st Edition

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