Nausea
The novel takes place in the town Bouville. The main protagonist is a historian, who becomes convinced that the objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself, evoking in the protagonist a sense of nausea.
Antoine Roquentin, a French writer is horrified at his own existence.
His thoughts culminate in an overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain."
It seems to me, if I ever had to go on a trip, I would like to, before I go, record even the smallest features of my homeland so that on my return I could compare what I was with what I became.Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.
Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris. His father was an officer of the French Navy.
He attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school in Paris after which he went to the École Normale, one of the most selective and prestigious graduate schools in Paris. As a teenager in the 1920s, Sartre became attracted to philosophy.
As a junior lecturer at the Lycée du Havre in 1938, Sartre wrote the novel La Nausée (Nausea).
In 1929 at the École Normale, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who studied at the Sorbonne and later went on to become a noted philosopher, writer, and feminist. The two became inseparable and lifelong companions.
From 1931 until 1945, Sartre taught at various lycées.
Sartre was a world-famous existentialist.
In 1940, he wrote his first theatrical piece, Barionà, fils du Tonnerre.
Sartre writes his popular book Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (L'Être et le néant : Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique), sometimes published with the subtitle A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, is a 1943.
Sartre's introduced his philosophy in his work Existentialism Is a Humanism (L'existentialisme est un humanisme, 1946), originally presented as a lecture.
In 1964 Sartre renounced literature in a witty and sardonic account of the first ten years of his life, Les Mots (The Words).
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