The Age of Reason (Penguin Modern Classics)

by David Caute (Introduction), David Caute (Introduction), Jean-Paul Sartre (Author), Eric Sutton (Translator)

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2001
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Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the distant threat of the coming of the Second World War.

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Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, "The Age of Reason" follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the distant threat of the coming of the Second World War.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 22 Feb 2001
ISBN 10: 0141185287
ISBN 13: 9780141185286

Media Reviews

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

Author Bio

Philosopher, novelist, playwright and polemicist, Jean-Paul Sartre is thought to have been the central figure in post-war European culture and political thinking. His most well-known works, all of which are published by Penguin, include THE AGE OF REASON, NAUSEA and IRON IN THE SOUL.