Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre (1997, Hardcover) 
Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre (1997, Hardcover)

 
Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre (1997, Hardcover)

Publisher: Amereon Ltd
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0848820258
ISBN-13: 9780848820251
Product ID: EPID1017916
Description: Sartre's first novel focuses on Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian who undergoes an existential crisis. Roquentin loses confidence in established values of ordinary life. His recognition of the absurdity of life precipitates ...
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Synopsis
Sartre's first novel focuses on Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian who undergoes an existential crisis. Roquentin loses confidence in established values of ordinary life. His recognition of the absurdity of life precipitates problems in all his relationships, including his relationship with himself. Roquentin records the shifts in his perceptions and the struggle to restore meaning to his life in a continuous present, free of lies. Besieged by metaphysical doubts, he tries to cleanse himself of "the sin of existing." The physical manifestation of his angst is nausea. "Nausea" is one of the central texts of 20th-century existentialism.

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Publication Date:1997-01-01

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Height:9.0 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:12.8 oz

Industry Reviews
"When an author inflicts his idle and arbitrary philosophic fancy on a helpless person whom he has invented for that purpose, a lot of talent is needed to have the trick work. One has no special quarrel with Roquentin when he decides that the world exists. But the task to make the world exist as a work of art was beyond Sartre's powers."
New York Times Book Review - Vladimir Nabokov (04/21/1949)

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