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Paul Nizan (1905–1940)

Author of The Conspiracy

26 Works 513 Members 6 Reviews 2 Favorited

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Includes the names: P Nizan, Paul Nizan

Works by Paul Nizan

The Conspiracy (1938) 145 copies, 2 reviews
Aden, Arabie (1931) 144 copies, 3 reviews
Les chiens de garde (1935) 77 copies
Antoine Bloyé (1933) 60 copies, 1 review
Le cheval de Troie (1935) 18 copies
Chronique de septembre (1933) 9 copies
Por una nueva cultura (1975) 6 copies
Pour une nouvelle culture (1971) 2 copies
Fesat (2017) 2 copies

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Legal name
Nizan, Paul-Yves
Other names
Nizan, Paul-Yves
Birthdate
1905-02-07
Date of death
1940-05-23
Gender
male
Education
Lycée Henri IV, Paris, France
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Occupations
novelist
essayist
journalist
translator
Organizations
French Army (WWII)
Relationships
Sartre, Jean-Paul (friend)
Todd, Emmanuel (grandson)
Short biography
Paul Nizan, the son of a railway engineer, studied in Paris, where he became a friend of classmate Jean-Paul Sartre. He joined the French Communist Party in 1929, and much of his writing over the next 10 years reflected the party's political beliefs. He broke with the party in 1939, the time of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. He enlisted in the French military and died in the Battle of Dunkirk at the start of World War II.
Cause of death
Fait de guerre (WW2)
Nationality
France
Birthplace
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val-de-Loire, France
Place of death
Dunkerque, France
Burial location
Nécropole nationale de la Targette, Neuville-Saint-Vaast, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France
Map Location
France
Associated Place (for map)
Centre-Val-de-Loire, France

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6 reviews
Memory is guile. That established, why hasn't anyone reviewed this novel? It likely isn't five stars but it does find velocity with the premise of La Bete Human, if only from an administrative perspective. That should count for something. Nizan bobbles about on my memory 's white capped surface. He is but one of many who should be wrestled from the milieu and examined with due sobriety.
I read this book while travelling to Dubai. Not quite Aden, but a great travel companion and opposition to virtual Dubai, a city lacking an exitential soul it seems. This book is soulfull and really exists ontologically speaking.
Fiction/French Prose/General/Literature - Classics / Criticism
Dopo circa quaranta anni, prendo in mano la collana La Medusa, che gioia quando papà l’acquistò. Inizio casualmente da “La cospirazione” di Paul Nizan, un romanzo del 1938 che racconta la giovinezza di cinque ragazzi che fondano una rivista, “La guerre civile”, e progettano insieme una rivoluzione. Ma i ragazzi rappresentano l’ennesima élite culturale di stampo borghese lontana dai bisogni delle masse. La cospirazione fallirà non per limiti oggettivi, ossia l’assenza di una show more reale spinta propulsiva, ma per ragioni soggettive che risiedono nelle incertezze e nelle contraddizioni dei protagonisti. Un romanzo non semplice, sicuramente datato, che anticipa, comunque, uno dei temi più ricorrenti della storia del Novecento, il radicamento della sinistra su posizioni lontane dai rappresentati. La scrittura è intensa e i temi affrontati non semplici. show less

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Daria Menicanti Translator
Jean-Paul Sartre Introduction, Afterword
Walter Benjamin Contributor
Joan Pinkham Translator
Quintin Hoare Translator
Lyra Bernadette Translator
Vera Mourão Translator
Carsten Jensen Afterword
Richard Elman Introduction
Hans Peter Lund Translator
Edmund Stevens Translator
Gerda Scheffel Translator

Statistics

Works
26
Members
513
Popularity
#48,355
Rating
3.8
Reviews
6
ISBNs
66
Languages
10
Favorited
2

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