num_pages: 300
description: Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938,  The Age of Reason  follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafés 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.The Age of Reason is the first volume in Sartre’s Roads to Freedom trilogy
language: English
title: Modern Classics Age of Reason
titlecomplete: Modern Classics Age of Reason
characters: Mathieu Delarue
genres: Classics, France, Philosophy, Nobel Prize, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Unfinished, French Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 14388
places: Paris
series: Les Chemins de la Liberté
publisher: Penguin Classic