TY - BOOK AU - Sartre,Jean-Paul AU - Baldick,Robert AU - Wood,James TI - Nausea T2 - Penguin Modern Classics SN - 9780141185491 U1 - 843 PY - 2000/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Self-hate (Psychology) KW - Fiction KW - Autonomy (Psychology) N2 - Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times -existentialism. The book chronicles his struggle with the realization that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning; a world in which he must find his own purpose and then take total responsibility for these choices. A seminal work of contemporary literacy philosophy, Nausea evokes and examines the dizzying angst that can come from simply trying to live ER -