{"product_id":"nausea","title":"Nausea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1938, Jean-Paul Sartre’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNausea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLa Nausée\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) is a landmark of twentieth-century French literature, a novel in which the ordinary world becomes suddenly strange and unsettling. Told through the diary of Antoine Roquentin, a solitary researcher living in the provincial town of Bouville, it follows his growing estrangement from familiar objects, social rituals and the reassuring stories people tell themselves about their lives. As Roquentin’s sense of reality begins to unravel, the simple fact of existence takes on an almost unbearable immediacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart philosophical inquiry, part psychological portrait, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNausea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores contingency, freedom, isolation and the fragile meanings we impose upon the world. Sartre gives abstract questions a vivid, unsettling physical presence, transforming a café, a park bench or the root of a chestnut tree into occasions for profound disquiet. The novel established many of the concerns that would define Sartre’s existentialist thought, while remaining a distinctive work of fiction: intimate, darkly comic and attentive to the strangeness of everyday life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Jean-Paul Sartre, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNausea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNausea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“What is striking in La Nausée is that remarkable fictional gifts and the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished and squandered.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Albert Camus, “On Jean-Paul Sartre’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLa Nausée\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64052041449802,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/nausea","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}