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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook) by Jean-Paul Sartre, Carol Cosman, Richard Howard, James A. Wood is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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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. ** Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature.  Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist and dramatist, hold a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel,  Le Nausée

Who reads Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)?

Author

Jean-Paul Sartre, Carol Cosman, Richard Howard, James A. Wood

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811220309

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Romance, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.91 / 5 (216 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14