{"product_id":"iron-in-the-soul-by-jean-paul-sartre","title":"'Iron in the Soul' by Jean-Paul Sartre","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"26\" data-end=\"474\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eGrim little bastard, naturally.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"26\" data-end=\"474\"\u003eThe third volume in Jean-Paul Sartre’s \u003cem data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"96\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eRoads to Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy, \u003cem data-start=\"106\" data-end=\"124\"\u003eIron in the Soul\u003c\/em\u003e follows Mathieu and others through the collapse of France in June 1940.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"26\" data-end=\"474\"\u003eThe novel traces the event as it endures a slew of defeat, erupting the public into fear, cowardice, moral exhaustion and sudden acts of violence from every side. This is Sartre with the philosophical scaffolding dragged into the mud. He doesn't pitch freedom as an abstract ideal, but instead tests it through fiction as something that it undone when tested under occupation, panic, bad faith and institutional failure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"476\" data-end=\"746\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eBleak, political and deeply uneasy, the novel turns war into a pressure chamber for responsibility. Everyone is compromised, everyone is thinking too much, and history arrives not as a grand event but as a series of ugly little decisions. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"476\" data-end=\"746\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenguin Modern Classics paperback, with an introduction by David Caute. This edition includes Gerard Hopkins’ English translation of Sartre’s \u003cem data-start=\"1275\" data-end=\"1295\"\u003eLa Mort dans l’âme\u003c\/em\u003e. Some age-toning, cover rubbing, light marks and general shelf wear visible; pages clean, binding sound. A solid reading copy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45341732110419,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-05T124610.764.png?v=1780627588","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/iron-in-the-soul-by-jean-paul-sartre","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}