| Title | : | Nausea |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Jean-Paul Sartre & Richard Howard |
| Release | : | 2013-03-25 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Fiction & Literature, Books, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Classics, Literary Fiction |
| Size | : | 862448 |
| 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 Nausée, his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century. |
