Nausea
(Book)

"La Nausée was first published in 1938 by Librairie Gallimard. First published in the U.S. in 1959 as New Directions Paperbook 82. Reset edition published in 1969. Reissued in 2007 with a new introduction by Richard Howard. Reissued again in 2013 with additional introductory material by James Wood"--Title page verso.

Antoine Roquentin, a thirty-five-year-old bachelor lives alone in Bouville, an imaginary town that recalls Havre. He is working on a book about the life of the late Marquis of Rollebon, an aristocrat of the late eighteenth century, and living off his income, after leaving a job in Indochina, the fatigue of travel and what he believes to be the adventure. This awareness marks one of Sartre's first important thoughts in the book. Roquentin is no longer compatible with the bourgeoisie or Mr. Bouville Rollebon who quickly seems boring and uninteresting, since history is about what has existed, and never an existing one can justify the existence of another Existing. It was then, in one of the most philosophical passages of the book, that he relates how dizzying he is conscious.