Nausea

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 Nausee, his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Paul Cosman Sartre, Carol Cosman, Richard Howard, James Wood
• Assisted by: Carol Cosman (Translation), Lloyd Alexander (Translation), Richard Howard (Translation)
• Publisher: New Directions
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 23.04.2013
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies
• EAN: 9780811220309
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-2030-9
• Pages: 186
• Dimensions (packing): 13.5 x 20.5 x 1.5 cm
• Subjects: FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Classics; FICTION / Psychological; Fiction - General; FICTION / World Literature / France / 20th Century