French Philosophy a Must....
I have recently read 'The Age Of Reason', by Jean-Paul satre- it is a powerful study of the cost of individual freedom , however you choose to perceive it, set against the background of the shadow cast by The Second World War......The main character, Mattheiu, is a university lecturer, who has a mistress, Marcelle, who is pregnant with his child..........There are also several other characters whom the book 'focuses' on, mainly friends of Matthieu's. Throughout the book, their individual viewpoints are portrayed, all within the timespan of (about) 24 hours......of course, it ends with Matthieu effectively 'losing' Marcelle to Daniel, a homosexual friend of his, unable to accept that he is such......certainly very thought-provoking/powerful writing, some would say 'fatalistic'- after all, the writer(Satre) was a confessed Marxist/Exestentialist.
