One of the most important books that points the way to the future existentialism of Sartre's ideas.
Nausea along with The Wall, which is a number of short stories, entered French consciousness before the war. Nausea points in the direction that French literature would take after World War Two. It was a seminal break with the past, the elegance of French bourgeois life, its beautifully constructed sentences, it character types, its plotting. This was no Remembrance of Things Past. To use an oft used word by Sartre's biographer Cohen-Solal, Sartre represented a rupture in philosophy and literature. He rejected all middle class values in favor of individual freedom. But that will come later, when he writes his magnun opus, Being and Nothingness. In the meantime the focus of Requentin's diary entries in Nausea is that each and every object has its own special, unique being, which can be monstrous as one perceives it in one's own consciousness. Suddenly everything is alive and notices you.
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