Paul Nizan - Committed Literature In A Conspiratorial World

Redfern, W D

ISBN 10: 0691062188 / ISBN 13: 9780691062181

Edité par Princeton University Press, 1972

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CLoth, dj, F/F. x+233pp, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. An account of the life, work & influence of Nizan [ 1905 - 1940 ] who was a friend & fellow student of Jean Paul Satre & a member of the Communist Party. Idealogically a Marxist his writings detailed the ills of French Society in the 1930's. He left the Communist Party in 1939 & was Killed in Action during World War 2. A prototype Angry Young Man, and according to Satre a man with a sharper mind than his own. 600 grams.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Paul Nizan - Committed Literature In A Conspiratorial World
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date de parution: 1972
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691062188
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691062181
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: 1st edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Poids: 600 grammes
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

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 appraisal in English of his life and work.

Nizan as a writer and a critical intelligence is seen in Mr. Redfern's analysis of his radical imagination and its deployment in his novels, polemical essays, journalism, and correspondence. His place among his contemporaries is also assessed, Mr. Redfern thus illuminating the political and literary worlds of the philosophical rebels (Berl, Politzer, Friedmann), the Communists and idealists (Aragon, Malraux, Weil) in Paris during the 1920"s and 1930's.

Originally published in 1972.

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