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Spring 2006 • Vol. XXVIII No. 2 • Nonfiction |

Malraux’s Demons

By Jeffrey Meyers

Malraux: A Life by Olivier Todd. Translated by Joseph West. New York: Knopf, 2005. 541 pages. $35.00.

 

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Jeffrey Meyers, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has had thirty-three books translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets and published on six continents. He has recently published Robert Lowell in Love and The Mystery of the Real: Correspondence with Alex Colville in 2016, and Resurrections: Authors, Heroes—and a Spy in 2018.

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