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Nausea

By Jean-Paul Sartre & Richard Howard &
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre & Richard Howard &  digital book - Fable

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Sartre's greatest novel — and existentialism's key text — now introduced by James Wood.

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads 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.”

Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre — philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist — holds a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. La Nausée, his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century.

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3.5
“це була трошки "дивна" книга, але мені сподобалось. вкотре впевнююсь, що мені заходить філософія екзистенціалізму. багато хто вважає її песимістичною, адже головна теза — "життя не має сенсу". проте я ніколи не дивилась на це з такого боку, темного і сумного. скоріше навпаки, хаха: 🎀 життя не має сенсу 🎀. думаю, ми є в цьому світі лише тому, що ми просто є. ми не були послані сюди з якоюсь окремою метою або місією. ми просто є. існуємо тому що ну... існуємо. так, життя немає сенсу. проте ми самостійно цей сенс йому надаємо.”

Richard Howard

Richard Howard is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Untitled Subjects, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970. He is the translator for more than 150 works from the French language. He received the American Book Award for his translation of Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.

James Wood

James Wood, the prominent critic, essayist, and novelist, is a professor at Harvard and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Born in Durham, England, he began his career at The Guardian and later became a senior editor at The New Republic. He currently serves on the editorial board of The London Review of Books and The Common in Cambridge, MA. His books include The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the NovelHow Fiction Works, and, most recently, The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays.

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