LA CONSPIRATION

The Conspiracy is the last and most acclaimed novel by French writer and activist Paul Nizan, who died two years after its publicati on fighting the Germans at the Battle of Dunkirk. Hailed by Jean-Paul Sartre as Nizan s masterpiece, the book centers upon the figur e of Bertrand Rosenthal, a misguided philosophy student studying in pre-war Paris. Eager to foment a revolution and having little gr asp of his own motives, Rosenthal draws a small group of disciples into a conspiracy both fatuous and deadly. Simultaneously, he plu nges int...[Read more]