Nausea (novel)

Nausea
	La Nausée by Jean-Paul Sartre
Author	Jean-Paul Sartre
Original title	La Nausée
Translator	Lloyd Alexander; Robert Baldick
Language	French
Genre	Philosophical novel
Published	1938 (Éditions Gallimard, in French); 1949 (in English);
Publication place	France
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	253 (Penguin Books edition)
ISBN	0-8112-0188-0 (US ed.)
OCLC	8028693

Nausea (French: La Nausée) is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel.^[1]^[2]

The novel takes place in 'Bouville' (homophone of Boue-ville, literally, 'Mud town') a town similar to Le Havre.^[3] It comprises the thoughts and subjective experiences—in a personal diary format—of Antoine Roquentin, a melancholic and socially isolated intellectual who is residing in Bouville ostensibly for the purpose of completing a biography on a historical figure. Roquentin's growing alienation and disillusionment coincide with an increasingly intense experience of revulsion, which he calls "the nausea", in which the people and things around him seem to lose all their familiar and recognizable qualities. Sartre's original title for the novel before publication was Melancholia.

The novel has been translated into English by Lloyd Alexander as The Diary of Antoine Roquentin^[3] and by Robert Baldick as Nausea.^[4]

^ "Jean-Paul Sartre – Biography". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB. Retrieved 29 Dec 2010.
^ Charlesworth, Max (1976). The Existentialists and Jean-Paul Sartre. University of Queensland Press. p. 154. ISBN 0-7022-1150-8. I would like them to remember Nausea, one or two plays, No Exit and The Devil and the Good Lord, and then my two philosophical works, more particularly the second one, Critique of Dialectical Reason. Then my essay on Genet, Saint Genet.... If these are remembered, that would be quite an achievement, and I don't ask for more.
^ ^a ^b Carruth, Hayden (1964). Jean-Paul Sartre (ed.). Nausea. New York: New Directions. p. v – xiv. ISBN 0-8112-0188-0.
^ Sartre, Jean-Paul; Baldick, Robert; Wood, James (2000). La Nausée [Nausea] (in French). Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-141-18549-1.

[1] "Jean-Paul Sartre – Biography". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB. Retrieved 29 Dec 2010.

[2] Charlesworth, Max (1976). The Existentialists and Jean-Paul Sartre. University of Queensland Press. p. 154. ISBN 0-7022-1150-8. I would like them to remember Nausea, one or two plays, No Exit and The Devil and the Good Lord, and then my two philosophical works, more particularly the second one, Critique of Dialectical Reason. Then my essay on Genet, Saint Genet.... If these are remembered, that would be quite an achievement, and I don't ask for more.

[carruth-3] Carruth, Hayden (1964). Jean-Paul Sartre (ed.). Nausea. New York: New Directions. p. v – xiv. ISBN 0-8112-0188-0.

[4] Sartre, Jean-Paul; Baldick, Robert; Wood, James (2000). La Nausée [Nausea] (in French). Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-141-18549-1.

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