The Age of Reason
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
21 March 2001
Summary
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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141185286 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141185287 |
| Author: | David Caute, Eric Sutton, Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 21 March 2001 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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“Entertaining…the characters are well observed and conscientiously and intelligently studied.”– Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
About The Author
David Caute
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 include THE AGE OF REASON, NAUSEA and IRON IN THE SOUL.
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