It is the most enjoyable book Sartre has ever written.

The New Yorker

Sartre’s greatest novel — and existentialism’s key text — now introduced by James Wood

Nausea

Fiction by Jean-Paul Sartre

Translated from French by Richard Howard

With a contribution by James Wood

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every 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 Nausée, his first novel, is a landmark in existentialist fiction and a key work of the twentieth century.

Paperback(published Mar, 25 2013)

ISBN
9780811220309
Price US
14.95
Price CN
16
Page Count
192

Ebook(published Mar, 25 2013)

ISBN
9780811222525
Price US
14.95

audiobook

Paperback(published May, 01 2007)

ISBN
9780811217002
Price US
14.95
Price CN
18
Trim Size
5x8
Page Count
192
Portrait of Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

20th century French writer, critic and philosopher

It is the most enjoyable book Sartre has ever written.

The New Yorker

The best-written and most interesting of Sartre’s novels.

Atlantic Monthly

It is the most enjoyable book Sartre has ever written.

A.J. Liebling, New Yorker