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But what does that mean for a nonperson?

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When Swann denounces the persecution of the Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly accused of treason, he becomes a nonperson and, along with other "Dreyfusards," is blacklisted.

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He soon was rendered a nonperson within the Soviet Union, as his successor Leonid Brezhnev assumed the leadership.

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He provides a host of phantom enemies, usually the weak and the vulnerable, who are rendered nonpersons.

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Her old friends shun her as a nonperson.

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