Nausea

Sartre's diary novel of Roquentin, whom existence itself begins to disgust in a provincial library town.

Specifications & Metrics

author

Jean-Paul Sartre

type

Philosophical novel

era

Late modernism (1938)

language

French

setting

Bouville, a northern French port

parts

1 volume

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• Published 1938, Sartre's first novel, written on mescaline-observed days in Le Havre.
• Roquentin's nausea is the body's discovery of being's contingency.
• It fictionally precedes Being and Nothingness by five years.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Nausea (novel)