France

Nausea

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Summary

Antoine Roquentin, alone in a French port city, records a growing sense of disgust at the brute existence of things — people, objects, his own hands. Sartre's first novel and his most complete expression of existentialist philosophy in fiction.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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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Published
1938
Author
Jean-Paul Sartre