Author: Andre Malraux
Year: 1930
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9780785906124
0394701364
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From the front cover: A novel of adventure among the lost temples of the Cambodian jungle, by the author of "Man's Fate."
From Wikipedia: ...[A]n existentialist novel...It is about two nonconformist adventurers who travel on the "Royal Way" to Angkor in the Cambodian jungle. Their intention is to steal precious bas-relief sculptures from the temples.
From the back cover: "The Royal Way...is the smoothest of Malraux's novels, with a dramatic buildup of the reader's curiosity....[the two heroes] are obsessed with death and convinced that courting it with a lover's zeal sets them above other mortals, who cling to a life they do not know how to enjoy....These lovers of death are most avid for life...." --Henri Peyre, in "The Contemporary French Novel."
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