Paul Nizan: Committed Literature in a Conspiratorial World

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 le