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When Susan Rubin Suleiman shares the response she had to Andre Malraux's novels as a graduate student, in "Malraux's Women: A Revision" (1984), she may well voice the reaction of a good many critical readers today almost 20 years later.' She recalls thinking, without equivocation, that "they [the novels] were not repeatable today" (141). Although Suleiman means that nobody would write those novels in the 1980s, her comment points us just as aptly to their absence from the successive waves of critical re-releases, or literary reruns, of writers. Not in the decade preceding Suleiman's article, nor in the two following decades, have scholars found compelling |