The Reprieve Author:Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre's dramatic panorama of the anguished week preceding the Munich agreement in September, 1938, when all Europe mobilized for war. A fiercely ironic commentary on the greatest betrayal of our age, it brilliantly conveys the atmosphere of moral paralysis, counterfeit heroism and personal squalor that marked France's journey into def... more »eat.« less