Nausea (La Nausee, 1938) is Jean-Paul Sartre's first novel, presented as the diary of Antoine Roquentin, a historian gripped by a physical revulsion at the sheer, unjustified existence of things. It gave literary existentialism its first fictional form, dramatizing themes Sartre would later formalize in his philosophical treatise Being and Nothingness.
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1938, the same year the movement's own period-start-year marks; the movement's own description credits this novel with giving it its philosophical vocabulary.
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is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938.
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