the age of reason Author:jean-Paul Sarte Background is Paris before WWII. A guilt ridden intellectual, his pregnant mistress, the impulsive university girl he loves, a cold Communist logician, an aging nichtclub singer and her young lover, a self-tormented homosexual- these characters play their parts in a taut drama that is a dissection of society in moral crisis and examination of th... more »e basic questions of human existence.« less