The Age of Reason
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Publishing Details
The Age of Reason
By (Author) Jean-Paul Sartre
Introduction by David Caute
Translated by Eric Sutton
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
21st March 2001
22nd February 2001
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Classic fiction: general and literary
843.912
Physical Properties
Paperback
320
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 14mm
224g
Description
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.
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.
