The Age of Reason
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Penguin paperback, 1961.
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The first novel in Sartre's "Roads to Freedom" trilogy is a foundational literary exploration of existentialist philosophy. Set in Paris in 1938, the novel follows Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy professor, over a tumultuous three-day period as he desperately tries to raise money for his mistress Marcelle to have an abortion. In this book, Sartre meticulously examines the concept of freedom and the responsibility it entails.
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Jean Paul Sartre
The leading figure of 20th-century existentialism. His style is marked by a stark, "engaged" realism designed to provoke moral crisis, often placing characters in claustrophobic settings—most famously in the play No Exit—to illustrate the burdens of radical freedom and bad faith. While he was a global intellectual celebrity and was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (which he famously refused), he faced significant contemporary pushback from both the political right and traditionalists for his atheism and Marxist leanings. One half of one of the most iconic intellectual romantic partnerships in history with Simone de Beauvoir.
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