Nausea /
Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated from the French by Robert Baldick ; afterword by James Wood.
- United Kingdom : Penguin Books Ltd under their Penguin Classics imprint, 2000
- ix, 227p. ; 20 cm.
Translation of La nausée. Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, 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 realization 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
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Psychoanalysis--Fiction. Existentialism --Fiction. Self-perception --Fiction. French literature --20th century --Fiction.