Nausea | Style
The Fictional Diary
Nausea is written in the form of a fictional diary. An “Editors’ Note” that opens the novel states that the diary was found among the notebooks of Antoine Roquentin. Since the diary is entirely fictional, as is the character Roquentin, Sartre’s inclusion of this “Editors’ Note” adds a sense of authenticity to the story. The “diary” also includes several editors’ footnotes, which explain certain inconsistencies in the entries. For example, one footnote explains that a word has been crossed out in the handwritten original of...
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