11.11.09

What I'm reading now.

Other than being busy as hell as the festive season is quickly approaching, I've been continuing my reading of spectacular novels by literature's greats. At the moment, I've just started a new novel by renowned author Jean-Paul Sartre. I've only just started so it's a bit early for my true critique or praise for the novel, however I do quite like it as of now.

Title:
The Age of Reason

Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre

Blurb:
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, the Age of Reason follows two days in the life of
Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the distant threat of the coming of the Second World War.
Enjoy.