Nausea Av Jean-Paul Sartre

<p>Jean-Paul Sartre''s first published novel, <i>Nausea </i>is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from the French by Robert Baldick with an introduction by James Wood.<br><br><i>Nausea </i>is both the story of the troubled life of an introspective historian, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism. The book chronicles his struggle with the realisation that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning; a world in which he must find his own purpose and then take total responsibility for his choices. A seminal work of contemporary literary philosophy, <i>Nausea </i>evokes and examines the dizzying angst that can come from simply trying to live.<br><br>Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was an iconoclastic French philosop