The Reprieve

The Reprieve (French: Le sursis) is a 1947 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre.

It is the second part in the trilogy The Roads to Freedom. It concerns life in France during the eight days before the signing of the Munich Agreement and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938.

Works of Jean-Paul Sartre
Novels and short stories
  • Nausea (1938)
  • The Wall (1939)
  • The Age of Reason (1945)
  • The Reprieve (1945)
  • In The Mesh (1948)
  • Troubled Sleep (1949)
  • Intimacy (1949)
  • Hurricane over Cuba (1961)
Plays and screenplays
  • Bariona (1940)
  • The Flies (1943)
  • No Exit (1944)
  • Morts sans sépulture (1945)
  • The Respectful Prostitute (1946)
  • The Chips Are Down (1947)
  • Dirty Hands (1948)
  • The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
  • Kean (1953)
  • Nekrassov (1955)
  • The Condemned of Altona (1959)
  • The Trojan Woman (1965)
  • The Freud Scenario (1984)
Philosophical essays
  • "Imagination: A Psychological Critique" (1936)
  • "The Transcendence of the Ego" (1936)
  • "Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions" (1939)
  • "The Imaginary" (1940)
  • "Being and Nothingness" (1943)
  • "Existentialism is a Humanism" (1946)
  • "Search for a Method" (1957)
  • "Critique of Dialectical Reason" (1960, 1985)
  • "Notebooks for an Ethics" (1983)
  • "Truth and Existence" (1989)
Critical essays
  • "Anti-Semite and Jew" (1943)
  • "Situations I - X (1947–1976)
  • "Black Orpheus" (1948)
  • "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr" (1952)
  • "The Henri Martin Affair" (1953)
  • "The Family Idiot" (1971–2)
Autobiographical
  • Sartre By Himself (1959)
  • The Words (1964)
  • Witness to My Life & Quiet Moments in a War (1983)
  • War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War (1984)
Related topics
  • Authenticity
  • Bad faith (mauvaise foi)
  • Existence precedes essence
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