The Reprieve
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Reprieve
By (Author) Jean-Paul Sartre
Introduction by David Caute
Translated by Eric Sutton
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
9th July 2001
31st May 2001
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Classic fiction: general and literary
843.912
Physical Properties
Paperback
400
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 22mm
294g
Description
It is September 1938 and during a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe, each wrestling with their own love affairs, doubts and angsts - and none of them ready to fight. The second volume in Sartre's wartime Roads to Freedom trilogy, The Reprieve cuts between locations and characters to build an impressionistic collage of the hopes, fears and self-deception of an entire continent as it blinkers itself against the imminent threat of war.
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.
