Living on a rent and doing historical studies, the main character is spared the necessity to work and, as a result, to be connected to the society.Īntoine Roquentin lives alone. In it, the hero carefully and in detail describes his revelation of the notion of existence of the surrounding world and himself as part of it. In its shape, “Nausea” is a diary of the thirty years old historian Antoine Roquentin. In it, author performs the analysis of classical problems of existentialism as literary school: apprehension of the notion of existence and, as the result of this apprehension, theses of the absurdity of human life, its senselessness and life being a burden for the intellectual mind. Genre of the work is philosophical novel.
“Nausea” was written by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1938 during author`s stay in Gavres.
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