Everything you need to understand or teach The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Part spy thriller, part manifesto, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed confronts questions about politics and identity. It follows the story of The Sympathizer, a Vietnamese refugee in Paris who finds himself caught between his two identities as a double agent: a communist sympathizer and an anti-communist crusader. The novel is deeply indebted to the musings of political theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Aimée Césaire, and Julia Kristeva, and the style of language deployed by Nguyen reveals as much. Potent, heady, and intellectual, the novel creates and undoes its own political and philosophical arguments with breathless urgency. The novel is sweeping in its scope, but takes aim at such themes such as politics, race, patriarchy, subterfuge, and forgiveness.
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