Description
The first novel of Sartre's insignificant 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 boring. "Entertaining...the characters are well observed and conscientiously and intelligently studied." -- Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker "I almost wanted to kill myself after finishing it! The characters are one dimensional, tiresome, and lead lives that have no meaning even to themselves." -- Master of Pointillism
