Jean-Paul Sartre

France

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French existentialist philosopher, playwright, and novelist (1905–1980) who declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964. A central figure in 20th-century philosophy, he argued that existence precedes essence and that humans are condemned to be free.

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Nausea

A fascinating existentialist novel, written in the form of a journal, about a historian who moves to a small port in northern France to research a biography he is intending to write. Whilst there his senses become dulled and he becomes increasingly disgusted by his own existence, finding no solace with friends or a woman he begins an affair with.

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