They are analyzed with a rigor of thought and expression that will no doubt seem intolerable to most readers. It is a question here of nothing but the spiritual results of solitude. “Nausea,” the journal of Antoine Roquentin, is the novel of absolute solitude.
Sartre only questions the fact of existence, which is an order of reality much more immediate than the human and social elaborations of the life that is on this side of life. Kafka always questioned the meaning of life. I would say that Sartre could be a French Kafka by virtue of his gift for expressing the horror of certain intellectual situations, if it weren’t that his ideas, unlike those of the author of “The Great Wall of China,” were not completely foreign to moral problems. Jean-Paul Sartre who is, I think, a philosophy professor, and to whom we owe an excellent book on “Les Images,” has just made a startling debut in the novel.
Source: Pour une nouvelle culture, Paris, Grasset, 1971 ĬopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) 2008. Paul Nizan 1938 Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Nausea” In the years around the time of his death, however, existentialism was overtaken by structuralism, represented by Levi-Strauss and, one of Sartre's detractors, Michel Foucault.Jean-Paul Sartre's 'Nausea' by Paul Nizan 1938 He declined the award of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age." He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy. Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. Roquentin's efforts to come to terms with life give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed. Nausea features a French writer, Antoine Roquentin, who is horrified at his own existence, ruthlessly cataloging his every feeling and sensation, resulting in an overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread 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."
Join the Seward Park Library for a Classics Book Discussion on Jean-Paul Sartre's first novel Nausea (1938). A canonical work of existentialism philosophy and, according to Sartre himself, one of his best books.
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