Work · Jean-Paul Sartre
The Last Chance — fragments
Surviving materials continue The Roads to Freedom around Brunet, captivity and tensions within communist commitment.
Understanding the text
The fourth volume was never completed; Strange Friendship appeared in 1949, with materials later edited in the 1981 collected fiction.
Key points
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Incompletion
Fragments do not authorize inventing an ending or an author's final verdict.
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Friendship
Personal relationships can challenge the certainties of political belonging.
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Project
Notes document work toward a continuation rather than a finished novel.
How to read it
Consult the critical apparatus to distinguish drafted text, plans and editorial decisions.
Editions & sources
Summaries and key points are original editorial interpretations. They accompany reading the work and do not replace an edition of the text. Editorial method ↗