Nausea
by J
About This Novel
"Nausea" is a diary novella written by French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, first published in 1938. "Nausea" is the first novella in which Sartre combined his philosophical thoughts with literary forms and used novels to express "existence". Sartre assumes that the protagonist suffers from a disease in the book, and points out that this disease can be suffered by everyone. Therefore, Roquentin sometimes suffers from "nausea" when he is in a state of discomfort, and we can also suffer from "nausea". Roquentin is fighting, trying to get rid of his real existence, to identify with one or some artworks from the past, or even a piece of jazz music "A Moment of Time", to achieve some kind of freedom. This is the central idea that Sartre wants to express in this book: "being and freedom."
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