The Last Chance: Roads Of Freedom Iv (roads To Freedom)

The first English translation of Sartre's unfinished fourth volume of Roads of Freedom, exploring themes central to Sartrean existentialism. Based on the French Pleiade edition, published by Gallimard in 1981, the book also includes an interview with Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir's account of his plans for the unfinished work, and introductory material by the editor of the French edition. The Last Chance brings to an English-speaking audience for the first time the unfinished fourth volume of Jean-Paul Sartre's hugely important Roads of Freedom cycle. Roads of Freedom is generally read and regarded as a trilogy, made up of Age of Reason, The Reprieve and Troubled Sleep . In fact, Sartre began a fourth volume and, although he never finished the work, two chapters, 'Strange Friendship' and 'Last Chance', were published in French by Gallimard after his death. Set in a German prisoner of war camp, these chapters continue the story of Roads of Freedom, exploring the interrelations Jean-Paul Sartre ceased work on his 'Roads to Freedom' cycle many years before his death, but these works are almost unknown to Anglophone audiences. This volume offers a translation of the unfinished fourth part of the work An English translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's "Roads to Freedom", that explores the interrelations of politics, responsibility; friendship and freedom - themes central to Sartrean existentialism.