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The Conspiracy, winner of the Prix Interallie in 1938, was Paul Nizan's last novel and was hailed by Jean-Paul Sartre as his masterpiece. It is centered upon the figure of Bertrand Rosenthal, philosophy student at the Ecole Normale, would-be revolutionary and scion of a haut-bourgeois Jewish family. Seeking to prove his commitment to the cause of Revolution by moving from words to deeds, Rosenthal involves his little group of disciples in a conspiracy as fatuous as that devised by Conrad in The Secret Agent. Simultaneously, he plunges into a forbidden - and ultimately tragic - love affair. The intertwined plots move inexorably towards their twin destinations of betrayal and death. This new edition makes available for the first time in English Walter Benjamin's political assessment of the book.
| ISBN | 1844677680 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781844677689
(What's this?) | | Pages | 272 | | Publisher | Verso Books | | Weight (grammes) | 318 | | Imprint | Verso Books | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 01 Nov 2011 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Translator | Quintin Hoare | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY | 843.912 | | Academic level | General |
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"A complex mixture of history and analysis constitutes the great value of Nizan's book - A hard, true testimony at a time when 'the Young' are forming groups and congratulating themselves, when the young man thinks he has rights because he is young." Jean-Paul Sartre "It is a delicate, sometimes lyrical, evocation of the atmosphere and attitudes of the late Twenties. It catches the tone of youthful conversation and shows the interplay between intelligence and absurdity, feeling and frivolity, without any of the propagandist simplifications one might have expected from a Communist writer dealing with the privileged denizens of the Ecole Normale Superieure... The Conspiracy is a genuine piece of literature." John Weightman, New York Review of Books  Be the first to write a customer review
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