The Age of Reason: A Novel

by Jean-Paul Sartre

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679738954
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/07/1992
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	623,438
Product dimensions:	5.24(w) x 7.93(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Philosopher, novelist, playwright, and polemicist, Jean-Paul Sartre is thought to have been the central figure in post-war European culture and political thinking. He is the author of The Age of Reason, The Words, and the play No Exit among other works.

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"Entertaining...the characters are well observed and conscientiously and intelligently studied." -- The New Yorker

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"Entertaining...the characters are well observed and conscientiously and intelligently studied."— Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker

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