Nausea | Critical Overview
Nausea is considered to be the seminal text of French existential philosophy. The influence of Nausea, along with Sartre’s other writings, on twentieth-century thought has been profound and pervasive. Roquentin’s philosophical dilemma, as expressed in Nausea, has been regarded as representative of the experience of modern life in the twentieth century. As Hayden Carruth, in an introduction to an English translation of Nausea, remarked, “Nausea gives us a few of the clearest and hence most useful images of man in our time that we possess,”...
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