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The Roads To FreedomThe Roads to Freedom (in French, Les chemins de la libert) is a trilogy of novels by Jean-Paul Sartre. The three novels L'ge de raison (The Age of Reason), Le sursis (generally translated as The Reprieve but which could cover a number of semantic fields from 'deferment' to 'amnesty'), and La mort dans l'me (mysteriously translated as Iron in the Soul), revolve around Mathieu, a Socialist teacher, and a group of his friends. The novels were written largely in response to the events of World War II and the Nazi occupation of France, and express certain significant shifts in Sartres philosophical position towards 'engagement' (commitment) in both life and literature, finding their resolution in the extended essay L'existentialisme c'est un humanisme (Existentialism is a Form of Humanism), which was criticized from both sides of the existentialist fence. Roads to Freedom
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