Description
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.
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 3/25/2013
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.5 lbs
Size: 8.2″ H x 5.4″ L x 0.6″ W
ISBN: 9780811220309
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.