Nausea -- Jean-Paul Sartre

Thank you to everyone for participating in today's meeting. Due to various considerations, I have decided to hold off on the book I mentioned at the end of today's meeting. Instead, let's dive into some existentialism as we read *Nausea* by Jean-Paul Sartre.

**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.

*Nausea* is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly