Nausea (New Directions Paperbook) by Jean-Paul Sartre

ISBN: 0811220303

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Condition: new

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 Naus?e, his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century.