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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
Sartre’s 1938 debut novel follows Antoine Roquentin’s diary as he confronts the raw contingency of things. It is a narrative gateway into existentialism.
After the lecture, the ideas become lived experience. The standard US Lloyd Alexander translation in this printing includes an introduction by James Wood and is far more approachable than the treatises.
- Author
- Jean-Paul Sartre · translated by Lloyd Alexander · introduction by James Wood
- Edition
- New Directions, 2013 printing · approximately 192 pages
- ASIN
- 0811220303
- Level
- Intermediate · novel
- Kindle
- B00COG0EWC
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View this edition on AmazonWhat this book does
The novel lets the unsettling fact that things simply exist arrive through a character’s daily experience. It connects the vocabulary of existentialism to a mood and a story before the more technical books.
Why it belongs at step 3
After the lecture, the ideas become lived experience. The standard US Lloyd Alexander translation in this printing includes an introduction by James Wood and is far more approachable than the treatises.
Edition and buying notes
New Directions, 2013 printing · approximately 192 pages. Kindle availability is listed above; confirm that the edition matches the format and translation you want.