Orientalizmo Patirtis Ankstyvojoje Malraux Kûryboje
The Orientalistic Experience in Early Malraux’s Novels

Summary/Abstract: In this article the main attention is paid to the early novels of French writer, art historian A. Malraux (1901-1976). The article deals with 2 novels: “Temptation of West” (1926) and “The Royal Way” (1930). The first of them explored the parallels between Eastern and Western culture. The work was set on the early stages of the Chinese revolution and focused on the exchange of letters between a young European and a young Asian intellectual. The second novel set in the Indochinese jungle. The book was largely a dialogue on death; it was one Malraux’s main themes. This oriental experience of writer and absorbed oriental culture formed the original conception of museum without walls, which is like a museum in the mind, comprising the art of past centuries and civilizations.

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