Andre maurois aspects of biography of mahatma

Andre Maurois is in agreement with the notion that autobiography should be recognised as a literary genre that stands alone, as he makes the observation.

In book: The ABC of Modern Biography (pp); Publisher: Amsterdam University Press.

Biography is not a popular literary form in India, but autobiography is even less so.

He wrote many popular biographies about such notable figures as Voltaire, Charles de Gaulle, George Sand, and Benjamin Disraeli.

But André Maurois went on to say - "You go to the land of good- will ; forget not you have a warm heart.

Biography is not a popular literary form in India, but autobiography is even less so..

André Maurois (1885-1967) is today a largely forgotten French writer, and somewhat unjustly so, or rather for a reason that pertains more to French literary history than the intrinsic literary value of his oeuvre.

In 1918, in his preface to Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey wrote: ‘The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England. We have had, it is true, a few masterpieces, but we have never had, like the French, a great biographical tradition; we have had no Fontenelles and Condorcets, with their incomparable éloges, compressing into a few shining pages the manifold existences of men.’1 For a Frenchman today, this reads like a surprising paradox, for we are rather under the impression that, unlike the English, the French have never had a great biographical tradition: we have never had a Walton and an Aubrey, a Johnson and a Boswell, a Carlyle and a Lytton Strachey.

But we have had a Maurois. A contemporary of Lytton Strachey and the New Biography movement