num_pages: 397
description: The first novel of Sartre's monumental 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 intense.
language: English
title: The Age of Reason
titlecomplete: The Age of Reason (The Roads to Freedom, #1)
characters: Mathieu Delarue
genres: 20th Century, Unfinished, Philosophy, Nobel Prize, French Literature, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 14388
places: Paris
series: Les Chemins de la Liberté
publisher: Vintage Books