Nausea

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 Nausee, His First And Best Novel, Is A Landmark In Existential Fiction And A Key Work Of The Twentieth Century. Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin - who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself, on his intellectual and spiritual freedom, evoking in the protagonist a sense of nausea - and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosopical attitudes of our times - existentialism A fascinating existentialist novel, written in the form of a journal, about a historian who moves to a small port in northern France to research a biography he is intending to write. Whilst there his senses become dulled and he becomes increasingly disgusted by his own existence, finding no solace with friends or a woman he begins an affair with. This novel is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposision of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism