Le démon de la biographie La tentation de T.E. Lawrence

This article studies the aborted attempt that the Le Démon de l’Absolu constituted by aligning itself, on the one hand, with the biographised, with a clearly metaphysical portrait and, on the other, with the biographical, with the writing of the Lawrencian adventure, as well as biography as a specific genre, whose constraints were analysed by André Malraux then rejected as antithetical to his creation. This aporia is surpassed by Antimémoires, which owes a great deal to the Démon de l’Absolu.