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The Age of Reason

Jean-Paul Sartre

1947·397 pages

Part of His The roads to freedom series

Literary Fiction

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.

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The Age of Reason

Jean-Paul Sartre

Part of His The roads to freedom series

Year

1947

Pages

397

Literary Fiction

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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.

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