The Age of Reason (Sartre)
- The Age of Reason (Sartre)
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name = The Age of Reason
title_orig = L'âge de raison
translator = Eric Sutton
image_caption = Cover of the 1992 English edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Age of Reason", Vintage Press edition.
author = Jean Paul Sartre
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = France
language = French
series = The Roads to Freedom
genre = Novel
publisher = Gallimard, Knopf, Vintage
release_date = 1945
english_release_date = 1947
media_type =
pages = 416
isbn = ISBN 0-679-73895-9
followed_by = The Reprieve
"L'âge de raison" ("The Age of Reason") is a 1945 novel by Jean Paul Sartre. It is the first part of the trilogy "Les chemins de la liberté" ("The Roads to Freedom"). The novel, set against the background of the bohemian Paris of the late 1930s, focuses around three days in the life of a philosophy teacher named Mathieu who is seeking to find the money to pay for an abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. In these three days, the motives of various characters and their actions are analyzed and the perceptions and observations of others are taken in account to give the reader a comprehensive picture of the main character.
"L'âge de raison" is concerned with Sartre's conception of freedom as the ultimate aim of human existence. This work seeks to illustrate the existentialist notion of ultimate freedom through presenting a detailed account of the characters' psychologies as they are forced to make significant decisions in their lives. As the novel progresses, character narratives espouse Sartre's view of what it means to be free and how one operates within the framework of society with this philosophy. This novel is a fictional representation of his main philosophical work, "Being and Nothingness", where one attains ultimate freedom through "nothing", or more precisely, by being nothing.
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