Sartre's greatest novel โ and existentialism's key text โ now introduced by James Wood.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which โspreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of ...Full description
Sartre's greatest novel โ and existentialism's key text โ now introduced by James Wood.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which โspreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time โ the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain.โWinner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre โ philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist โ holds a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. La Nausรฉe, his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century.