Jan 3, 2010

Nausea | Summary

Nausea is written as a diary begun by Antoine Roquentin in January of 1932. Roquentin, a thirtyyear- old man, has been living in the small French seacoast town of Bouville for the past three years, during which he has been researching and writing a biography of the Marquis de Rollebon, an eighteenth-century political figure. Roquentin lives alone in a one-room apartment near the train station. Before moving to Bouville, he had spent many years traveling throughout the world.

Roquentin begins writing the diary in order to record a subtle change he has noticed in his...