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 Interallie in 1938. This
new edition includes Walter Benjamin s critique of the book,
available here for the first time in English.
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