Nausea

Synopsis

The classic existentialist novel, with a new introduction by renowned poet, translator, and critic richard howard. Winner of the 1964 nobel prize for literature, jean-paul sartre, french philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, la nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unquestionably a key novel of the twentieth century and a landmark in existentialist fiction.