... involved in the situations he is portraying. By choosing to write on real political events, Malraux and Camus are appealing to their contemporary audience and readers, presenting them with characters facing familiar dilemmas. As far as Les Conquérants and Les Justes are concerned, 'la politique' is limited specifically to involvement in revolutionary activity. Every character has his own reasons for his engagement, whether stemming from experiences, personal ambition, moral duty or political conviction and their involvement clearly has repercussions far and beyond the sphere of the individual. What is more questionable, however, is the extent to which the characters are consciously working towards a common aim. Garine stands out as being the closest to Malraux's thinking at the time of writing Les Conquérants and is the character into whom the reader has the greatest insight. For Garine, revolution is not a means to an ends but a way of ...

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