# Nausea

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- Authors: [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-paul-sartre)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-549-1
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2020-03-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and 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 his choices. A seminal work of contemporary literary philosophy, Nausea evokes and examines the dizzying angst that can come from simply trying to live.