Nausea (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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Antoine Roquentin (ahn-TWAHN roh-keh-TA[N]), a philosophical young man who has settled down in Bouville, a town by the sea, to write a biography of the marquis de Rollebon, an eighteenth century European politician. During the third year of work on the book, Roquentin notices that he has become the victim of a strange affliction; what he calls a “sweetish sickness” settles over him from time to time. Repelled by the malady, he seeks to rid himself of it by spending time with the few people he knows and by stopping work on the Rollebon book. No one can...

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