The Age of Reason
, by SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL- ISBN: 9780679738954 | 0679738959
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 7/7/1992
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.