Age of maturity

“The age of maturity” (1945) is the first novel by the Sartre trilogy “Roads of Freedom.”

three days in the life of Mathieu, a university teacher of philosophy, before which a difficult choice faces. To join the “bourgeois” marriage with a woman who is waiting for a child from him, or to continue the search for his own freedom?

This simple at first glance the plot serves as a frame for the genuine content of the novel - an artistic study on an eternal existential topic of searches for true freedom , its meaning, the essence and the price that a person is ready - or is not ready to pay for its acquisition.