Nausea (Magill Book Reviews)

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After varied experiences throughout the world, the 30-year-old Roquentin has spent the past three years in Bouville, a dull, provincial French town. He is there to use its library, which houses the papers of an obscure 18th century figure, the Marquis de Rollebon. Roquentin intends to write Rollebon’s biography and thereby find some justification for his own existence.

Roquentin’s austere, solitary routines are relieved only by encounters with the Self-Taught Man, a fellow scholar who fatuously believes he is accomplishing something by devouring everything in the library in...

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