Lazare

In November 1972, Malraux suffered a severe medical collapse and was rushed to the Salpêtrière. He remained there for several days between life and death, aware that he had crossed a new threshold. On his return to Verrières-le-Buisson, Sophie de Vilmorin, his last companion, watched over him. He had to give up alcohol and tobacco, and for the first time faced a physical decline that forced him to rest.

Out of this ordeal came Lazare, a testamentary book, but also a work of resistance. For a man who had always stood up to death, in wartime adventure as in his reflections on art, the task now was to write against effacement. He took the opportunity to rewrite, in the present tense, a complete scene from Les Noyers de l’Altenburg.

Fine condition.