Nausea / Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated from the French by Robert Baldick ; with an introduction by James Wood.

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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980

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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Publication details: London : Penguin Books, 2000.Description: xx, 252 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780141185491

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Nausée. English.

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Summary: 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.

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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.

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