The Reprieve

The Reprieve  

Cover of the 1992 English edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Reprieve, Vintage Press edition.
Author(s) Jean-Paul Sartre
Original title Le Sursis
Translator Eric Sutton
Country France
Language French
Series The Roads to Freedom
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Gallimard, Knopf, Vintage
Publication date 1945
Published in
English
1947
Pages 464
ISBN ISBN 0-679-74078-3 (Vintage)
OCLC Number 25026430
Dewey Decimal 843/.914 20
LC Classification PQ2637.A82 S813 1992
Preceded by The Age of Reason
Followed by Troubled Sleep

The Reprieve (Le sursis in the original French) is a 1947 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre.

It is the second part in the trilogy Les chemins de la liberté (The Roads to Freedom). It concerns life in France during the eight days before the signing of the Munich Agreement and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938.