Paul Nizan (1905–1940)
Author of The Conspiracy
About the Author
Works by Paul Nizan
La storia di Teseo 1 copy
A conspiração 1 copy
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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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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.
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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- Works
- 26
- Members
- 513
- Popularity
- #48,355
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 6
- ISBNs
- 66
- Languages
- 10
- Favorited
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