TY - BOOK AU - Sartre,Jean-Paul AU - Baldick, Robert AU - Wood, James TI - Nausea SN - 9780141185491 AV - PZ3.S2494PQ2637.A32 Nau 1979 U1 - 843.912 SAR 23rd PY - 2000/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Penguin Books Ltd under their Penguin Classics imprint, KW - Psychoanalysis KW - Fiction KW - Existentialism KW - Self-perception KW - French literature KW - 20th century N1 - 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 UR - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57288/nausea-by-jean-paul-sartre-trans-robert-baldick-introjames-wood/9780141185491 ER -