![]() ![]() He does certain things only because there is no reason for doing differently. He feels the nausea whenever he suddenly becomes aware of the fact that there is “absolutely no reason for living.” Furthermore Roquentin lives life’s absurdity. His nausea attacks embody Roquentin’s sudden awareness of life’s meaninglessness and absurdity. This nausea overcomes Roquentin in various situations: once in a café, in a street and also in his study. By going through everyday life Roquentin is regularly afflicted by attacks of what he calls his “nausea”. ![]() Roquentin is writing a history book about a person called the Marquis de Rollebon, an eighteenth-century diplomat and traveller. His name is Roquentin and he is the novel’s main character and narrator at the same time. “Nausea” is about a man at the age of thirty, who becomes increasingly disgusted by his own existence. “Nausea” was his very first work and it can be seen as the forerunner of Sartre’s existentialism, which he was going to formulate in his work “Being and Nothingness“ in 1943. The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre published his philosophical novel “Nausea” in 1938. ![]()
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