Jean-Paul Sartre
Paperback | Pages: 348 pages Rating: 3.89 | 1918 Users | 98 Reviews
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| Original Title: | La mort dans l'âme |
| ISBN: | 0141186577 (ISBN13: 9780141186573) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Les Chemins de la Liberté #3 |
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June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour by hour, Iron in the Soul unfolds what men thought and 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 Sartre's Roads to Freedom Trilogy, is a harrowing depiction of war, and what it means to lose.Specify Appertaining To Books Iron in the Soul (Les Chemins de la Liberté #3)
| Title | : | Iron in the Soul (Les Chemins de la Liberté #3) |
| Author | : | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 348 pages |
| Published | : | September 26th 2002 by Penguin Classics (first published 1949) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Philosophy. Cultural. France. Literature. European Literature. French Literature |
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That was a heavy dose of Sartre... I think the Reprieve was the most interesting in the series language-wise. I liked the entangled story lines, and the sense of impending disaster that underlined the entire plot. Troubled Sleep starts excellently with Gomez in New York trying to register American emotions as Paris falls to the Nazis... Throughout this trilogy you get a sense of the French people, desperate to close their eyes and sleep forever, or to awake from the nightmare of their times.Just like The Reprieve (1945), the second volume in a planned tetrology, the third installment Iron in the Soul (1949) sees Sartre developing the original story as told in The Age of Reason (1945), the first part in the series. In contrast to The Reprieve, Sartre returns to a style of writing that compares to The Age of Reason - no longer jumping from character to character with each sentence. This makes Iron in the Soul kind of a fresh breath of air.The story itself is rather dull. France has
The third volume of the Roads trilogy and Sartre changes tone once again. Age of Reason was about the ways in which its key characters interacted with one another, to create an effect like a group of mixed, random group of people lost in an elegant maze on a hot summers day. Looking for the right direction they shoot off in many, only to find themselves back with the clusters of similarly lost souls, with only the fact there are a few new faces and few less of the old, to mark the difference.
The only thing more horrifying than defeat is its aftermath.That is the tale that Jean Paul Sartre has woven in 'Iron In The Soul'. Heart wrenching stories of the men who had lost the War for France; a war that they did not choose to fight, did not even know much about.'Iron In The Soul' is a tale of the fall of heroes and humans. People portray themselves as worms and corpses; sometimes out of shame, sometimes out of necessity. Here and there, flashes of human dignity sting the reader (and the
Final installment in the "Roads to Freedom" trilogy.
Definitely the least interesting of the series. It seemed like Sartre got bored writing about these characters and really just wanted to finish the series. The only character that reached some sort of conclusion was Mathieu. All I can say about Mathieu is... yes, he found his freedom. I could have lived without Burnet and his story. No mention of Marcelle, which I thought was unfortunate because I wanted to see where she would go. Same with Gomez, he just sort of falls out of the picture. Boris,
One of the core messages of Les Chemins de la Liberté is that you are, more than anything, defined by your actions. Often you do things you didn't expect you'd do, and this can force you to reevaluate your self-image.In the first volume, Mathieu ends up doing something quite extraordinarily despicable. He doesn't have a high opinion of himself (when we get to listen in on his mental sound-track, he's often thinking je suis un salaud), but he'd never expected that he'd steal a large amount of
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