The Reprieve

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 all of which are published by Penguin include THE AGE OF REASON NAUSEA and IRON IN THE SOUL. 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 <i>Roads to Freedom</i> trilogy <i>The Reprieve</i> 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. 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 <i>Roads to Freedom</i> trilogy <i>The Reprieve</i> 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.