Les Chemins de la Liberté: L’age de Raison, Le Sursis, La Mort Dans L’ame. [The Roads to Freedom: The Age of Reason, The Reprieve, Troubled Sleep.

SARTRE, Jean Paul.

Item Number: 116309

Paris: Gallimard, 1945-1949.

First editions of all three volumes in Sartre’s Roads to Freedom trilogy. Octavo, original wrappers and illustrated boards. L’age de Raison and Le Sursis are inscribed by Jean Paul Sartre, “A Monsieur Robert Moureau hommage de Je Sartre.” Each volume is in near fine condition. L’age de Raison and Le Sursis retain the original glassine. Rare and desirable signed by Sartre.

Originally intended as a tetralogy but never completed, Jean Paul Sartre's The Roads To Freedom trilogy revolve around protagonist Matheiu, a Socialist philosophy professor, and his group of his friends. The trilogy includes: L'âge de raison (The Age of Reason), Le Sursis (The Reprieve), and La mort dans l'âme (Troubled Sleep). Sartre wrote the novels largely in response to Nazi occupation of France and they express significant shifts in his philosophical position towards a more engaged and humanistic approach than previously seen in his work.