The Reprieve (Paperback, [New Ed.])

Following his Age of Reason in the existentialist triology, the focus in this second volume is international rather than individual, concentrated on the eight days of anxiety while the world pivoted on the verge of war, and Munich provided reprieve. Here is France as she underwent mobilization, showed largely fear and negativism in the face of war, reflected through a fairly sizable cast of characters and by a technique of alternating transition sometimes difficult to follow. Once again one meets Mathieu, who, having escaped the personal pitfall of marriage to Marcelle, anticipates war with resignation - "humanity will continue on its futile journey"; Daniel, the homosexual, who married Marcelle and sits out her pregnancy; Philippe, the general's stepson, pacifist by intellect, coward at heart; Russian born Boris and his Lola, and so on and on. Once again there is a fair amount of physical passion, in realistic rather than aesthetic terms...The market will be fairly well pre-determined on Sartre's name, and the interest in the earlier book, on which the sequel is dependent. (Kirkus Reviews)

September 1938: in a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference. In Paris people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe – not one of them ready to fight. Cutting from one scene to the next, Sartre depicts the hopes, fears, and self-deception of Munich, building a powerful montage of that critical week when Europe, in its pathetic longing for a reprieve, blinkered itself against the threat of war.

The Reprieve is the second volume in Sartre’s Roads to Freedom trilogy

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Penguin Modern Classics
Release date:	May 2001
First published:	May 2001
Authors:	Jean-Paul Sartre
Introduction by:	David Caute
Translators:	Eric Sutton
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	376
Edition:	[New Ed.]
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-118578-1
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	0-14-118578-3
Barcode:	9780141185781

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