La náusea

After spending years traveling, Antoine Roquentin—a thirty-year-old man living on a modest private income—has settled in the port city of Bouville to write a book about a shadowy 18th-century aristocrat. However, he is suddenly overcome by an unfamiliar sensation: Nausea. The revelation of this feeling—as the fundamental experience of human contingency and solitude—will completely transform the meaning of his life. Published in 1938, Jean-Paul Sartre’s *Nausea* is the novel that most emblematically embodies the current of existentialist thought born of the horrific experience of World War I and its disastrous aftermath.