"Nausea" 1938 SARTRE, Jean-Paul (SOLD)

"Nausea" 1938 SARTRE, Jean-Paul (SOLD)SARTRE, Jean Paul[238] pp. New Directions19387 1 4" x 5"Jacket design by Alvin Lustig VG VG Nausea (French: La Nause) is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel. The novel takes place in 'Bouville' (homophone of Boue ville, literally, 'Mud town') a town similar to Le Havre. It comprises the thoughts and subjective experiencesin a personal diary formatof Antoine Roquentin,

SARTRE, Jean-Paul

[238] pp.

New Directions

1938

7 1/4" x 5"

Jacket design by Alvin Lustig

VG/ VG

Nausea (French: La Nausée) is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel.

The novel takes place in 'Bouville' (homophone of Boue-ville, literally, 'Mud town') a town similar to Le Havre. It comprises the thoughts and subjective experiences—in a personal diary format—of Antoine Roquentin, a melancholy and socially isolated intellectual who is residing in Bouville ostensibly for the purpose of completing a biography on a historical figure. Roquentin's growing alienation and disillusionment coincide with an increasingly intense experience of revulsion, which he calls "the nausea", in which the people and things around him seem to lose all their familiar and recognizable qualities. Sartre's original title for the novel before publication was Melancholia.