Overview
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 Naus e, his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780811220309
- ISBN-10: 0811220303
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: March 2013
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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