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Loading... Iron in the Soul (1949)by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. It has been a number of years since I read this series, so i will have to be rather general about it even though it has stuck with me all these years. I am a fan of Sartre's and his existentialist contemporaries, but this series was an amazing display of Sartre's skill as a fiction writer. While I am generally more fond of Camus' fiction, every book in the "The Roads to Freedom" trilogy stands out as my favorite fictional work by that group. Make no mistake, this trilogy is a masterpiece of existentialist fiction."The Roads to Freedom" series (originally meant to be a tetralogy) was a fictional representation of new direction in Sartre's vision of existentialism which was far more participatory. Using the back-drop of the Nazi occupation, Sartre's characters move from a prewar existence of complete apathy toward their life and others into individuals who are empowered by the will to resist any impediments to their freedom.This book is my favourite of the three, and was the first that I read of the series. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesRoads to Freedom (3) Belongs to Publisher SeriesGallimard, Folio (58) Kaderreeks ([6]) Penguin Modern Classics (2045) サルトル全集 (3) Distinctions
June 1940 was a summer of defeat for France's soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour by hour, Iron in the Soulunfolds what men thought, felt and did as France fell. Men who shrugged, men who ran, men who fought, and tragic men like Mathieu, who had dedicated his life to finding personal freedom, now overwhelmed by remorse and bitterness, who must learn to kill. Iron in the Soul, the third volume of Satre's Roads to FreedomTrilogy, is a harrowing depiction of war and what it means to lose. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)843.914Literature French French fiction Modern Period 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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