Nausea is a Romance philosophical but also somewhat autobiographical published by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1938.

Summary

Antoine Roquentin, single person of approximately thirty-five years, only lives in Bouville, imaginary city which points out Le Havre. He works with a work on the life of the marquis de Rollebon, aristocrat of the end of the 18th century, and saw his revenues, after having given up an use in Indo-China, by lassitude of the voyages and of what he had believed to be the adventure. He holds his newspaper, and it is the text of this newspaper which constitutes the novel. It notes that his report/ratio with the ordinary objects changed and it wonders in what. All seems to him unpleasant. It does not have any more affection for anybody. It meets the Autodidact with the library. Roquentin feels a deep distance with all that surrounds it. It does not support any more the middle-class of Bouville, Mr. de Rollebon quickly seems to him quite dull and without interest, also it stops its book. He wants all to leave then thinks perhaps that only the imaginary one will manage to tear off it with Nausea and the writing of a novel would help it can be to accept the existence.

Development

The novel entitled Nausea is the fruit of a long course and long a eight years development. Started from a philosophical approach the Conscience and Contingency, the young professor then posts some with the Havre works out the project of a " factum" , of an aggressive analysis of a philosophical approach, which is transformed into novel under the influence of the readings of Céline, of Kafka or Queneau. It also deepens the philosophical aspect of work while studying of close Husserl and the German Phénoménologie, in particular during its one year stay at the French Academic House of Berlin in 1933-1934, stay which will leave it however blind man with the reality of the Nazism. It writes several successive versions annotated by Simone de Beauvoir but the book is refused by the editions Gallimard in 1936. It takes again its text which is finally accepted in spring 1937. It will have however to still modify it to gum certain “a little free” passages (it is its expression) and to remove forty pages. The initial title chosen by Jean-Paul Sartre was Melancholia , undoubtedly by reference to Dürer, but Gaston Gallimard proposes and imposes the final title Nausea : the work appears in April 1938 and is greeted by the whole of the world of the letters.

Sources

• Source: biography published by Annie Cohen-Solal: Sartre - 1905-1980 , Gallimard, 1985.

• http://www.gallimard.fr/catalog/Html/actu/sartre-nrf.htm

See too

• Site of radio France culture, emission on Nausea and summarized book; http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture/emissions/carnet_nomade/fichedoc.php?diffusion_id=29790&dos=2005/sartre

• Extracts from Nausea; http://www.feelingsurfer.net/garp/poesie/Sartre.LaNausee.html
• " Critical ordinaire" of Nausea and Sartre; http://critiques-ordinaires.ouvaton.org/article.php3?id_article=490

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