Physical Description
xiii, 541 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Heroes and confectioners
Adolescence of a leader
The strange foreigner
False thieves?
A true revolutionary?
A farewell to arms
Exotic Parisian
Asiatic paths
Commercial traveler
1933
The Queen of Sheba
Trotskyist tropism
Soviet comrades
Time to choose
From Eisenstein to L'Humanité
Stalinist temptation
Agitprop
What hope?
Sierra de Teruel
The phony war
The war of the phonies
Malrauxs in the resistance
The Alsace-Lorraine cross
History, legend, novel
Civilian life
The militant companion
Family life
Power
Jackie and La Gioconda
Crises
Mao, memoirs, antimémoires
Temptation of the east
The orator
Clouds in May
Literature still
Brilliant pictures
The arts and art
Pot-au-feu and caviar
Scars.
ISBN
0375407022
9780375407024
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-522) and index.
Heroes and confectioners -- Adolescence of a leader -- The strange foreigner -- False thieves? -- A true revolutionary? -- A farewell to arms -- Exotic Parisian -- Asiatic paths -- Commercial traveler -- 1933 -- The Queen of Sheba -- Trotskyist tropism -- Soviet comrades -- Time to choose -- From Eisenstein to L'Humanité -- Stalinist temptation -- Agitprop -- What hope? -- Sierra de Teruel -- The phony war -- The war of the phonies -- Malrauxs in the resistance -- The Alsace-Lorraine cross -- History, legend, novel -- Civilian life -- The militant companion -- Family life -- Power -- Jackie and La Gioconda -- Crises -- Mao, memoirs, antimémoires -- Temptation of the east -- The orator -- Clouds in May -- Literature still -- Brilliant pictures -- The arts and art -- Pot-au-feu and caviar -- Scars.
