Nausea (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of Nausea Saturday, October 31 2009.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Nausea Friday, October 9 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jean-Paul Sartre: (Primary Author)

Patricia T edited the contributors of Nausea Wednesday, October 7 2009.

• Removed a contributor: Jean Paul Sartre: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray changed the title of Nausea Saturday, September 26 2009.

Timothy Gray denied Patricia T’s request to change the title of Nausea Saturday, September 26 2009.

Patricia T requested a change to the title of Nausea Thursday, September 24 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Nausea Friday, July 31 2009.

• Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist and dramatist, hold a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, Le Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unquestionably a key novel of the Twentieth Century and a landmark in Existentialist fiction. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, 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." Roquentin's efforts to come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize trhe tents of his Existentialist creed. he introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Nausea Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jean Paul Sartre: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Nausea Friday, July 17 2009.

• In a lecture delivered in 1945, Jean-Paul Sartre described existentialism as 'the attempt to draw all the consequences from a position of consistent atheism'.