Sartre’s greatest novel ― and existentialism’s key text ― 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 “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time ― the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats, it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain.” Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre ― philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist ― holds a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. La Nausée , his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century.
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN-10: 9780811220309
ISBN-13 : 978-0811220309
Publisher : New Directions; Reprint edition (March 25, 2013)
Language : English
Paperback: 192 pages
Reading Age : None
Dimensions : 5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Item Weight : 8 ounces
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