Describing The Protaganist Of A Jean-Paul Sartre Novel

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“Tell me Mathieu is intelligent, well read, and I’ll agree; 

but not likable…If you look at his eyes, you can see 

he knows too much. He’s the sort of fellow 

who can’t enjoy anything in a simple way, 

either eating, or drinking or sleeping with women. 

He has to think about everything. 

It’s like that voice of his: 

the cutting voice of a gentleman 

who is never wrong–I know it goes with the job 

of having to explain things to small boys. 

I had a teacher who talked like him 

but I’m not at school anymore 

and I find it tiresome.”

     

  The protagonist is Mathieu Delarue who teaches philosophy 

at a public school. The description is given by Lola, 
a cabaret dancer.  She is the only character 
in The Age of Reason older than Mathieu. 

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