The Age of Reason
Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
ISBN: 9780241259696
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 180mm x 111mm x 27mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series.
Following a Parisian philosophy teacher through the cafes and bars of Montparnasse over two days in the sweltering summer of 1938, Sartre's searing novel explores what it truly means to be free.
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.
ISBN: 9780241259696
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 180mm x 111mm x 27mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series.
Following a Parisian philosophy teacher through the cafes and bars of Montparnasse over two days in the sweltering summer of 1938, Sartre's searing novel explores what it truly means to be free.
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.
