Nausea (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: 1930’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: France or French people, Authors or writers, 1930’s, Historians, Existentialism, Loneliness
- Locales: France
Places Discussed
Bouville (boo-VEEL). Dark, cold, rainy, and foggy coastal city, which, in its ambience, stimulates the historian Antoine Roquentin’s growing despair and anger. Bouville is Sartre’s fictional version of the western French port Le Havre. However, Sartre makes an immediately bitter satirical point by setting Nausea in “Bouville.” In French, “la boue” is “mud”—Nausea therefore takes place in gloomy, viscous “Mudville.”
Nausea is essentially Roquentin’s journal of his experiences in Bouville. As Roquentin sees the...
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