Article: Gender, sexuality, and politics in Paul Nizan's 'La Conspiration.'(Critical Essay)

Que de fois j'aurai repete le mot homme.

Mais qu'on m'en donne un autre. C'est de

ceci qu'il s'agit: enoncer ce qui est et ce qui

n'est pas dans le mot homme.

(Paul Nizan, Aden Arable) (1)

What other word indeed could Nizan have chosen to describe his experiences in Aden? As Yves Stalloni has pointed out in a study of Nizan's representation of women, 'L'oeuvre romanesque de Nizan est d'abord celle d'un homme ecrivant des histoires d'hommes pour d'autres hommes'. (2) In a text such as Aden drabie--not, of course, a novel--the exclusion or, at least, relegation of the female subject is noteworthy, but poses no interpretative ...

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