Description
Jean-Paul Sartre's brilliantly constructed first volume of The Roads to Freedom trilogy—following Mathieu Delarue through a single summer in Paris as he attempts to exercise his freedom and discovers the specific ways in which freedom is both absolutely available and impossibly difficult—is existentialist philosophy in its most novelistically compelling form. Written with the formal intelligence and the genuine philosophical seriousness that make Sartre's fiction so much more than mere illustrated philosophy, this is essential reading for every student of existentialism. A significant and compelling work.
