Sartre, Jean-Paul 1905-1980 creator Alexander, Lloyd translator. text nyu Phnom Penh Footprints International School 2024 2013 monographic eng

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220 pages : 21 cm Nausea is the story of Antoine Roque tin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time -- the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. "Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre -- philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist -- holds a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. La Nausea, his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century. Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander ; foreword by Richard Howard ; introduction by James Wood. Existentialism French literature PQ2637.A82 843.914 9780811220309 (alk. paper) 2012050355 DLC 130110 20240816145736.0 4363 eng