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Book synopsis

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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Nausea
• Author: Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Howard, James Wood
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780811220309
• ISBN: 0811220303
• ID: 04722375
• Publisher: New Directions
• Weight: 227 g
• Dimensions: 208 × 137 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. March 2013

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