Knife at the Throat
T.J. Clark: Fanon’s Contradictions, 26 September 2024
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
by Adam Shatz.
Apollo, 464 pp., £25, January,978 1 0359 0004 6 Show More
by Adam Shatz.
Apollo, 464 pp., £25, January,
“... in Martinique, volunteering to fight for the Free French in the Second World War, his career in Lyon as arrogant young psychiatrist, the part he played in the war in Algeria, the encounters with Nkrumah and Lumumba, his death at the age of 36 – to realise that his is a voice coming to us from a vanished world. ‘Annihilated’ might be more accurate. Yet ... ”