Jean Malaquais
Polish-French writer and political thinker whom Mailer met in Paris during his Sorbonne year (1947–48); Lennon describes Malaquais as Mailer's "lifelong friend and mentor on Marxism and the Russian Revolution."
Mailer met Malaquais in Paris in late 1947 or early 1948, during the year he and Bea spent at the Sorbonne on the GI Bill. Malaquais — a novelist (Les Javanais, 1939; Planète sans visa, 1947) who had been close to Trotsky, André Gide, and Victor Serge — became, per Lennon, Mailer’s “lifelong friend and mentor on Marxism and the Russian Revolution”.
Malaquais would later translate Barbary Shore (1951) into French and collaborate with Mailer on Hollywood screenplays in the summer of 1949, when he and his wife Galy Malaquais joined the Mailers in California.
Stub; to be expanded as later Malaquais-Mailer correspondence and political writing come into scope.