Nausea
by Jean Paul Sartre
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Sartre's first novel focuses on Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian who undergoes an existential crisis. Roquentin loses confidence in established values of ordinary life. His recognition of the absurdity of life precipitates problems in all his relationships, including his relationship with himself. Roquentin records the shifts in his perceptions and the struggle to restore meaning to his life in a continuous present, free of lies. Besieged by metaphysical doubts, he tries to cleanse himself of "the sin of existing." The physical manifestation of his angst is nausea. "Nausea" is one of the central texts of 20th-century existentialism.
Editions of Nausea
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Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc |
Date 1969 |
Price $1.74 |
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Publisher New Directions |
Date 2007 |
Price $7.47 |
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Publisher Fine Communications |
Date 1999 |
Price $17.95 |
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Publisher Bentley Pub |
Date 1979 |
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Publisher Notes
The diary of Antoine Roquentin follows his thoughts as he gradually sinks into a metaphysical crisis of despair, in this the first novel by the leader of French Existentialism.
Media Reviews
"When an author inflicts his idle and arbitrary philosophic fancy on a helpless person whom he has invented for that purpose, a lot of talent is needed to have the trick work. One has no special quarrel with Roquentin when he decides that the world exists. But the task to make the world exist as a work of art was beyond Sartre's powers."
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