Ways of freedom

the Ways of freedom is a novel of Jean-Paul Sartre in three volumes published in 1945:

  1. the Age of Enlightenment
  2. the Deferment
  3. Death in the heart

the Ways of freedom introduces characters tortured by their choices, their principles and their requirement and thirst for exhaustive independence. This search of freedom - or its refusal - conditions all their existence: those for which it is a principle of life assumed and protested (Mathieu in the Age of Enlightenment ) to a ridiculed right (Milan in the Deferment ) or for those which it embarrasses per hour to take of the fundamental decisions (Ivitch, Daniel, etc).

This dark work, rich in surprised and reversals, proves to actually be a true handing-over in question of the position of the reader with respect to his own freedom. The raw and strong writing of this saga plays the part of instigator in a interrogation without concession for the implied reader. Thus, lira the Ways of freedom is not summarized to follow simple adventures but constitutes an act of engagement for the reader, engagement giving of the direction to words like living, being, to exist, act or undergo…

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