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Title: The Conspiracy
Condition: New
EAN: 9781844677689
ISBN: 9781844677689
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 01/02/2012
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 132mm
Author: Paul Nizan
Translator: Quintin Hoare
Contributor: Quintin Hoare (Translated by), Walter Benjamin (Contributions by), Jean-Paul Sartre (Afterword by)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1844677680
Description: The Conspiracy is the last and most acclaimed novel by French writer and activist Paul Nizan, who died two years after its publication fighting the Germans at the Battle of Dunkirk. Hailed by Jean-Paul Sartre as Nizan's masterpiece, the book centers upon the figure of Bertrand Rosenthal, a misguided philosophy student studying in pre-war Paris. Eager to foment a revolution and having little grasp of his own motives, Rosenthal draws a small group of disciples into a conspiracy both fatuous and deadly. Simultaneously, he plunges into a forbidden-and ultimately tragic-love affair as the intertwined plots move inexorably toward their twin destinations of betrayal and death.
The Conspiracy won the coveted Prix Interallié in 1938. This new edition includes Walter Benjamin's critique of the book, available here for the first time in English.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 316g
Genre: Fiction
Release Year: 2012

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