The Age of Reason
FictionHistorical20th Century

The Age of Reason

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Publisher
Penguin Books
Pages
299
Language
English
Published
1947

Overview

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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