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Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

  • 240 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1938
  • 98 editions
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1 About this book

A fascinating existentialist novel, written in the form of a journal, about a historian who moves to a small port in northern France to research a biography he is intending to write. Whilst there his senses become dulled and he becomes increasingly disgusted by his own existence, finding no solace with friends or a woman he begins an affair with.

  • Existentialism
  • Philosophy
  • Autonomy (Psychology)
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Diary fiction
  • Philosophical literature
  • Authors
  • Self

2 About Jean-Paul Sartre

1905–1980

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, US also ; French:; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, political activist, and writer, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology) and was a proponent of Libertarian Marxism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies.

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