Nausea (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: 1930’s
- Setting: France
- Principal Characters: Antoine Roquentin, Anny, Ogier P., Françoise
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: France or French people, Authors or writers, 1930’s, Historians, Existentialism, Loneliness
- Locales: France
The Story:
After traveling through Central Europe, North Africa, and the Orient, a thirty-year-old Frenchman named Antoine Roquentin settled down in the seaport town of Bouville to finish his historical research on the Marquis de Rollebon, an eighteenth century figure in European politics whose home had been at Bouville. For three years, Roquentin searched the archives of the Bouville library reconstructing the nobleman’s life. All Roquentin’s energies were concentrated on his task; he knew few people in Bouville except by sight, and he lived more in the imaginary world he...
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