{"product_id":"the-age-of-reason-paperback","title":"The Age of Reason (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first volume in his \u003ci\u003eRoads to Freedom \u003c\/i\u003etrilogy, Jean-Paul Sartre's \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Reason \u003c\/i\u003eis a philosophical novel exploring existentialist notions of freedom, translated by Eric Sutton with an introduction by David Caute in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nSet in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e 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 threat of the coming of the Second World War.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nJean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was an iconoclastic French philosopher, novelist, playwright and, widely regarded as the central figure in post-war European culture and political thinking. Sartre famously refused the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 on the grounds that 'a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution'. His most well-known works, all of which are published by Penguin, include \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNausea \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIron in the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Sartre's \u003ci\u003eNausea\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'For my money ... the greatest novel of the post-war period'\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPhilip Kerr, author of the \u003ci\u003eBerlin Noir\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Jean-Paul Sartre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47308678824114,"sku":"9780141185286","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9780141185286.jpg?v=1778744362","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/the-age-of-reason-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}