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What were the three completed novels in Jean-Paul Sartre's series The Roads to Freedom?
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre, photograph by Gisèle Freund, 1968.
Jean-Paul Sartre originally intended for his series Les Chemins de la liberté (The Roads to Freedom) to be a four-volume work, but he completed only three novels before shifting his focus toward drama.1
The three completed novels in the series are:
- L’Âge de raison (1945; The Age of Reason)1
- Le Sursis (1945; The Reprieve)1
- La Mort dans l’âme (1949; Iron in the Soul, or Troubled Sleep)1
After publishing the third volume, Sartre moved away from the novel as a medium for communication, believing that plays were more effective at portraying human beings in action.1