![]() ![]() ![]() Widely known as an atheistic proponent of existentialism, he emphasized the priority of existence over preconceived essences and the importance of human freedom. A graduate of the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure with an agregation in philosophy, Sartre has been a major figure on the literary and philosophical scenes since the late 1930s. Sartre is the dominant figure in post-war French intellectual life. La Naus e, his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century. Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. ![]() Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nau. ![]()
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