Sartres greatest novel x and existentialisms key text x now introduced by James WoodNausea 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 xCspreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle at the bottom of our time x the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats it is made of wide soft instants spreading at the edge like an oil stainxDWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature though he declined to accept it Jean-Paul Sartre x philosopher critic novelist and dramatist x holds a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters La NausxEe his first and best novel is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century.
