The Reprieve (The Roads to Freedom, #2)(Penguin Modern Classics)
It is September 1938 and during a heatwave, Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris, people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe, each wrestling with their own love affairs, doubts and angsts - and...
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It is September 1938 and during a heatwave, Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris, people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe, each wrestling with their own love affairs, doubts and angsts - and none of them ready to fight. The second volume in Sartre's wartime Roads to Freedom trilogy, "The Reprieve" cuts between locations and characters to build an impressionistic collage of the hopes, fears and self-deception of an entire continent as it blinkers itself against the imminent threat of war.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780141185781 (0141185783)
ASIN: 141185783
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Philosophy,
Modern,
Roman,
France,
French Literature,
World War II,
Glbt
Series: Les Chemins de la Liberté (#2)
I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like to have been a left-leaning French intellectual in 1939. You're used to defending Stalin on the grounds that he's at least against Hitler. Then he suddenly goes and forms an alliance with him. Sartre does his best to convey how this felt, as does de...
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