Paul Nizan: Committed Literature in a Conspiratorial World

by W.D. Redfern

Book Overview

Sartre's friend and sometime rival, Paul Nizan was a prototype of the angry young man. Ideologically a Marxist, politically a Communist, professionally a writer, endowed--Sartre conceded--with a sharper mind and greater literary ability than his own, Nizan diagnosed the ills of French society in the 1930's. His writings, vilified by the Party he left in September 1939, are being rediscovered in France. W. D. Redfern gives now the first full-length...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691619980
• ISBN13: 9780691619989
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"