Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausée [Nausea]

Eddis Miller (Pace University)

Ed. by Hugo Azerad, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1938

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre’s first novel, was published in 1938. It is widely considered to be his best (he would later publish three novels in his unfinished tetralogy, The Roads to Freedom). Along with Albert Camus’ The Stranger (1942), it is arguably the quintessential existentialist novel, and, like Camus’ novel, it is often read as the literary counterpart to philosophical views expressed non-fictionally elsewhere. Nausea is frequently read in relation to Sartre’s philosophical chef-d’œuvre, Being and Nothingness (1943). Though it won no literary prizes and was hardly a best seller—it took until 1950 to sell 50,000 copies (Deguy 25)—…

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Citation: Miller, Eddis. "La Nausée". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 February 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11108, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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