Dec 27, 2009

Nausea | Themes

Change, Transformation, Metamorphosis, Rebirth
Roquentin begins writing his diary because he has noticed a subtle change in his perceptions of himself and the world around him. He hopes that by recording his daily perceptions, he will be able to make sense of the nature of this change, which he describes as “an abstract change without object.” He realizes that, at various points in his life, he has been “subject to these sudden transformations,” in which “a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then one fine day, a veritable...