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Nausea

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Literature Atlas. "Nausea." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/nausea.

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Literature Atlas. (n.d.). Nausea. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/nausea

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@misc{literatureatlas-nausea,
  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {Nausea},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/nausea},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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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Composed, From (Year)

from 1938 1

Composed, To (Year)the subject's own account

to 1938 2

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Existentialism

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.

Source Encyclopaedia Britannica