Paul Nizan

Paul Nizan was born in Tours in 1905. A student at the École normale supérieure, he became friends with Jean-Paul Sartre. Attracted at first to fascism, he left in 1926 as a tutor to Aden, and joined the Communist Party on his return. He broke with the party in 1939, after the Nazi-Soviet pact, and was subsequently the target of a smear campaign. Mobilised at the beginning of the war, he died in May 1940, during the Battle of Dunkirk, at the age of thirty-five.

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• EssayAden, ArabieAden ArabiePaul Nizan · 1931Literature