Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, Nausea is both an extended
essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a
man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life. This Penguin
Modern Classics edition is translated from the French by Robert Baldick
with an introduction by James Wood. Nausea is both the story of the
troubled life of an introspective historian, Antoine Roquentin, and an
exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical
attitudes of modern times - existentialism.
The book chronicles
his struggle with the realisation that he is an entirely free agent in a
world devoid of meaning; a world in which he must find his own purpose
and then take total responsibility for his choices. A seminal work of
contemporary literary philosophy, Nausea evokes and examines the
dizzying angst that can come from simply trying to live. Jean-Paul
Sartre (1905-1980) was an iconoclastic French philosopher, novelist,
playwright and, widely regarded as the central figure in post-war
European culture and political thinking.
Sartre famously refused
the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 on the grounds that 'a writer
should not allow himself to be turned into an institution'. His most
well-known works, all of which are published by Penguin, include The Age
of Reason, Nausea and Iron in the Soul. If you enjoyed Nausea, you
might like Albert Camus' The Outsider, also available in Penguin Modern
Classics.
'One of the very few successful members of the genre "Philosophical Novel" ... a young man's tour de force'Iris Murdoch
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
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