The age of reason

By:

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Penguin Books 2001Description: xii, 385 p. plates, ports. 21 cmISBN:

9780141185286

Subject(s):

World War, 1939-1945--France--Fiction

DDC classification:

843.914SAR

Summary: The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress's pregnancy -- his search for a way to remain free becomes more and more intense.

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The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress's pregnancy -- his search for a way to remain free becomes more and more intense.

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