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Original Title:	Le Sursis
ISBN:	0679740783 (ISBN13: 9780679740780)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Les Chemins de la Liberté #2
Setting:	Paris(France) Munich (München)(Germany)

The Reprieve (Les Chemins de la Liberté #2) Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

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Title	:	The Reprieve (Les Chemins de la Liberté #2)
Author	:	Jean-Paul Sartre
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	July 7th 1992 by Vintage (first published 1945)
Categories	:	Fiction. Philosophy. Cultural. France. Literature. Novels

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In this book Sartre uses a really interesting technique in which he switches instantaneously from a character to another one even in the middle of the sentence. We are in France, just before the beginning of the 2nd world war, and Sartre tries to describe what is happening from many different point of views. The technique used in this book reminds me the counterpoint technique in music, in which different voices coexist and intertwine maintaining their individuality. These continuos switch between the various characters creates a gestalt, something that is more than the sum of the single voices of the characters, Sartre creates invisible links that nearly create poetry. I had never read a book using this literary technique and I like it very much, I think it has a great potentiality and if somebody read other books that used it please write them in the comments, Thank you!

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The scene in Social Network where the shot cuts from Justin Timberlake mid-sentence and Andrew Garfield completes the sentence for him by saying "A billion dollars," there are a million sequences like that in this book. Sartre doesn't bother to change the para or even the sentence when moving from one location to another. When he uses a pronoun even in the middle of a sentence you can't be sure who it's being used to represent, the cuts are just extreme. Think Godard at his most irreverential?

What a shame when pretentiousness ruins a book! This would have been such a good book had it not been written by Sartre who, apparently, made it his life's goal to sound smart and incomprehensible. After having read some five of his books, I really do think he was a much better philosopher than writer.

I think this book has the most characters of any book I've read. WW2 is a looming reality and the writing style reflects the effect this has had on life. Sometimes Sartre switches perspectives, time and place within a sentence. We are bounced back from Paris, London, Prague, Berlin and Russia. When we catch up with all the characters that we know from Age of Reason, they are altered by the situation. It's interesting to see the different ways people thought of Hitler and the Germans before it

Better than the first, gripping to about half way, then lost some of its poignancy, still interesting view of the prelude to WWII.

In this book Sartre uses a really interesting technique in which he switches instantaneously from a character to another one even in the middle of the sentence.We are in France, just before the beginning of the 2nd world war, and Sartre tries to describe what is happening from many different point of views.The technique used in this book reminds me the counterpoint technique in music, in which different voices coexist and intertwine maintaining their individuality.These continuos switch between

I read the 1st book in the series and really enjoyed it, so I was looking forward to this one only to be very disappointed. Sartre did away with new paragraphs and chapters to run each set of character and situations straight into the next. I couldn't keep up with who he was talking about. Names seemed to keep arriving which I didn't know. I was expecting it to pick up with the saga of the baby and Daniel. I read 60 pages and decided life is too short to continue wasting my time.

A powerful rendering of the rumbling beginnings of WWII from a French perspective. The narrative is expertly constructed, the plethora of characters is easy to follow and sympthize with, and the story is compelling.