Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222527
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Book Synopsis Nausea by : Jean-Paul Sartre
Download or read book Nausea written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.