The Reprieve : A NovelAn extraordinary picture of life in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Munich Pact and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938. Translated from the French by Eric Sutton.
What is war?
What is war other than as it exists in the minds of the people who experience it? Sartre explains that in order to locate it, one would have to be everywhere at once, which is precisely what this novel permits its readers. This text, which is a complex weaving of the psychological states and experiences of a diversity of people who are forced to anticipate and conceptualize war, sheds light not only on the events leading to WWII, but the events which shaped Sartre as a writer and philosopher. A novel that could be read a thousand times, it contextualizes existentialism as a philosophy and serves as a framework for understanding the evolution and existence of existentialist thought. --Reviewer: mariah from Minneapolis, MN United States
Incredible.. Thought provoking!
This is one of the most powerful works of literature that I've ever read. It combines a powerfully unique literary style, a philosophical dilemma threaded through lives of a set of well developed characters set against a background of one of the most important historical developments that has defined the rest of the 20th century. This is the kind of a book, where every other page "asks" to be quoted. It will wrench your heart, focus your mind and make you look inward questioning the significance of a man in the context of a historical momentum. Awe inspiring..! --Reviewer: Igor Desyatnikov (see more about me) from Brooklyn, NY USA
