Stay of Execution

Description

The novel Stay of Execution by Jean-Paul Sartre. Along with new protagonists, all the protagonists from the first part (Coming of Age) return in this second part, facing a crucial and difficult period in human history, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Through his description of human emotional, intellectual, and political concerns, Jean-Paul Sartre confronts the reader with the most important existential question: freedom, and the consequent commitment and responsibility towards society and history. The novel Stay of Execution is the second part of the trilogy (Paths of Freedom), considered the largest and most brilliant existential novels. Sartre was able to make his existential philosophy accessible to all readers by casting it in a unique narrative form.