Winner of the 1964 nobel prize for literature, jeanpaul sartre, french philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. Nausea is written in the form of a diary that narrates the recurring feelings of revulsion that overcome. Nausea is a novel by jeanpaul sartre that was first published in 1938. Jeanpaul sartre, french novelist, playwright, and exponent of existentialisma philosophy acclaiming the freedom of the individual human being. Pdf artistic creation as an act in sartres nausea researchgate. Life and works jeanpaul sartre was born in paris on june 20, 1905, and died there april 15, 1980. Learn more about sartres life, works, and philosophy in this article. Jeanpaul sartre was born on 21 june 1905 in paris as the only child of jeanbaptiste sartre, an officer of the french navy, and annemarie schweitzer. Summary read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. In his novels and plays, as in nausea, he portrays his characters adrift in a meaningless world. The main characters of this philosophy, fiction story are antoine roquentin, lautodidacte.
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