![]() ![]() This puts a huge burden on us and ultimately leads us to despair but also to freedom.įor Roquentin, the nausea that he feels is this gradual realisation. If we do something, it is because we choose to do so, not because of predetermination or god. We are, by chance, and everything else exists because we make it so. For existentialists, there is no higher being or higher order. Other philosophies postulate a higher being. The theory behind existentialism is clear. He is at a loss to explain these feelings but gradually he (and we) realise that he is feeling existential angst. ![]() ![]() Real things – a stone, a glass of beer – make him feel uneasy. He is writing his diary because he feels a change coming over him, a sort of nausea. Roquentin is a solitary person and has recently returned to France after a long period abroad. It purports to be the diary of Antoine Roquentin, a historian who is writing about the Marquis de Rollebon, and the manuscript of his notes has been found, an old cliché. However, this book had an immediate success on publication and has remained in print and a key work of the twentieth century. He may be right about the Dostoevsky influence but then lots of writers have been influenced by Dostoevsky. Fortunately, his views have not prevailed. ![]() Nabokov clearly did not think much of this book. Home » France » Jean-Paul Sartre » La Nausée (US: Nausea UK: The Diary of Antoine Roquentin) Jean-Paul Sartre: La Nausée (US: Nausea UK: The Diary of Antoine Roquentin) ![]()
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