

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." Roquentin's efforts to come to terms with life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creedĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:10:36 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA127614 Boxid_2 CH102501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City [New York Containerid_2 X0001 Donorĥ34ashburystreet Edition 24. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. It is unquestionably a key novel of the twentieth century and a landmark in Existentialist fiction. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, La Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters.
