Aden, Arabie

"[This book] is under-cooked, unpruned, and self-indulgent....The Preface...is not one of Sartre's better essays. There is much rhapsodizing over the various violences of youth, a subject on which both Sartre and Mlle. de Beauvoir become increasingly misty-eyed as time goes by. More interesting are the main sections on Nizan himself....[The] fear of betrayal, by surrender to the bourgeoisie, is identified by Sartre as central to Paul Nizan....[The] book is a crescendo of antibourgeois invective, sometimes fine invective. It is not a travel book in any convenctional sense....[It] ends with an oath of hate. It is to be war in every waking instant against the bourgeois....It is not hard to see the fear of treachery which pervades this book: both the fear of being betrayed and the fear of betraying....It has been said that [this work] makes a good text for the European student rebels of today."Nizan, Paul is the author of 'Aden, Arabie' with ISBN 9780231063579 and ISBN 0231063571.