Antimémoires
Paris, Gallimard, (October 31) 1967.
1 vol. (140 x 200 mm) of 604 p. and [3] f. Publisher's cloth boards.
Special printing of 240 copies for the Compagnons de la Libération (with stamp).
Signed presentation inscription: “Pour Madame Marchal, avec les hommages d'André Malraux.”
Preserved with the copy: two letters headed Ordre de la Libération, dated 21 November and 13 December 1967, announcing this edition reserved for “Compagnons ou à leurs familles” as well as the signing sessions scheduled in the author's presence — then Minister of Cultural Affairs — on 9 December and 16 January.
Signed presentation inscription: “Pour Madame Marchal, avec les hommages d'André Malraux.”
Preserved with the copy: two letters headed Ordre de la Libération, dated 21 November and 13 December 1967, announcing this edition reserved for “Compagnons ou à leurs familles” as well as the signing sessions scheduled in the author's presence — then Minister of Cultural Affairs — on 9 December and 16 January.
A rare printing, the only limited edition apart from the deluxe copies (pur fil and Hollande paper).
These memoirs, which claim not to be memoirs at all, form the first part of Le Miroir des limbes. Jean Schlumberger admired in the Antimémoires their “secret architecture”; on 9 October 1967, he wrote to Malraux with great perceptiveness, in what remains one of the finest analyses of the book: “you are a man in whose feelings death has wrought harsh ravages; […] behind your eloquence there is that silent note which I value more than eloquence itself” — that famous eloquence which Malraux found so hard to shed, and which drew some criticism. Yet, as Schlumberger sensed: “The whole ending of your book did not merely interest me: it moved me.”
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