'One of the very few successful members of the genre 'Philosophical Novel'. If you enjoyed Nausea, you might like Albert Camus' The Outsider, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. His most well-known works, all of which are published by Penguin, include The Age of Reason, Nausea and Iron in the Soul. His funeral was modest and noble, sober and out of control. 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'. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide by Bright Summaries Paperback 9. INTRODUCTION : JEAN - PAUL SARTRE you loved him or hated him, no one could be indifferent. 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. The novel takes place in 'Bouville' ( homophone of Boue-ville, literally, 'Mud town') a town similar to Le Havre. A seminal work of contemporary literary philosophy, Nausea evokes and examines the dizzying angst that can come from simply trying to live. Nausea ( French: La Nause) is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. 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. 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. 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. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from the French by Robert Baldick with an introduction by James Wood. 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.

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