Nausea
New Directions Publishing · Print & ebook · March 25, 2013
A Philosophy pick for readers exploring Nausea.
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- Genres
- 20th-Century French Fiction, The Classics, Psychological Fiction
- Published
- New Directions Publishing, March 25, 2013
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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.”
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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.
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- French literary criticism
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Where it sits
| 20th-Century French Fiction | 90% |
|---|---|
| Psychological Fiction | 41% |
| The Classics | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Psychological Fiction
- 20th-Century French Fiction
- Authors
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, James Wood
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Published
- March 25, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- The Classics