Folio: Age de Raison (Series #A36870) (Paperback)

from DanielSTJ

This was a novel that was great in how it was written, the ideas and formulated concepts that were developed throughout its duration. While the content itself is not the strongest point, what it is meant to represent is much stronger and carries the story from its inception to its conclusion. Ove...

from P_S_Patrick

A dark brooding, philosophical film noir of a novel; a knife stabbed through the hand in a Parisian cabaret night club as a proof of metaphysical freedom. Sure, some might say it is melodramatic navel gazing for the most of it, but this is to miss the mood, the existentialist experience, the atmo...

from dbsovereign

Part history, part philosophical novel this book captures a slice of time in Paris like no other. If you think Sartre has to be thick and boring, try this book as a very readable introduction to his life and how his life was influenced by the events transforming Europe at the time.

from lautremont5

ties with nausea as sartres' best fiction

from Trotsky731

Slow at first, but gets more interesting near the ending. Tells the tale of Mathieu, a thirty-something Frenchman who has impregnated his mistriss and realizes that her ensuing pregnancy threatens his notions of freedom. Nearer the end of the novel, Mathieu has somewhat of an epiphany that challe...