Volume 44, Number 9 · May 29, 1997
Mythmaker
By Simon Leys
André Malraux: A Biography
by Curtis Cate
Fromm, 451 pp., $29.95
This story is somewhat stale, I am afraid, but it still has a point. In a crowded church, the preacher ascends the pulpit and pronounces a moving sermon. Everybody is crying. One man, however, remains dry-eyed. Being asked the reason for his strange insensitivity, he explains: 'I am not from this parish.'
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