Abstract: If André Malraux discouraged intellectuals of the 1930s from enquiring about his biography, it was because, for many of them, the desire for socially efficient myths was more important than the desire for historical truth. But from 1933, André Malraux participated personally in French political life and staked his novels on his public action: he thus abandoned the fictional apparatus with which he had, in his early novels, deflected biographical interpretations.
