
Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 63. Chapters: A Night of Serious Drinking, Nausea, Too Many Cooks, Hussein, An Entertainment, Out of the Silent Planet, Appointment with Death, Rebecca, Anthem, The Gift, Capricornia, The Unvanquished, Galactic Patrol, Scoop, Mr. Moto Is So Sorry, The Fashion in Shrouds, The Sword in the Stone, The Yearling, Brighton Rock, Invitation to a Beheading, Ruined City, Alamut, Torchlight to Valhalla, Murphy, The Code of the Woosters, Flying Colours, The Judas Window, Night and the City, They Drive by Night, Cause for Alarm, Death in Five Boxes, Prelude for War, Father Malachy´s Miracle, The Gracie Allen Murder Case, The Four of Hearts, Death from a Top Hat, The Secret Warning, A Ship of the Line, To Wake the Dead, The Death of the Heart, The Devil to Pay, The Crooked Hinge, Tarzan and the Forbidden City, Tropic of Capricorn, The Cut Direct, Roads, Murder at the New York World´s Fair, Black Empire, Count Belisarius, The Buccaneers, The Dark Room, Dynasty of Death, Mr. Popper´s Penguins, Vidas Secas, Remember the End, Young Man with a Horn, The Haunted Bridge, The Silver Princess in Oz, Thimble Summer, Lassie Come-Home, Can Ladies Kill?, Royal Escape, March to Quebec, Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse, Savage Range, Perri, Tuli ja raud, Artists in Crime, Death in a White Tie, Karge meri, La vida inútil de Pito Pérez, Heidi Grows Up, The Long Haul, Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn, L´Homme qui regardait passer les trains, Vlcí jáma, Na krásné samote. Excerpt: Nausea (orig. French La Nausée) is an epistolary novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938 and written while he was teaching at the lycée of Le Havre. This is Sartre´s first novel and one of his best-known. The novel concerns a dejected historian in a town similar to Le Havre, who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself, on his intellectual and spiritual freedom, evoking in the protagonist a sense of nausea. It is widely considered one of the canonical works of existentialism. Sartre was awarded (but declined) the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964. They recognized him ´´for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age.´´ He was one of the few people ever to have declined the award, referring to it as merely a function of a bourgeois institution. In her La Force de l´âge (The Prime of Life – 1960), French writer Simone de Beauvoir claims that La Nausée grants consciousness a remarkable independence and gives reality the full weight of its sense. It has been translated into English at least twice; by Lloyd Alexander as ´´The Diary of Antoine Roquentin´´ (John Lehmann, 1949) and by Robert Baldick as ´´Nausea´´ (Penguin Books, 1965). Written in the form of journal entries, it follows 30-year-old Antoine Roquentin who, returned from years of travel, settles in the fictional French seaport town of Bouville to finish his research on the life of an 18th-century political figure. But during the winter of 1932 a ´´sweetish sickness´´, as he calls nausea, increasingly impinges on almost everything he does or enjoys: his research project, the company of an autodidact who is reading all the books in the local library alphabetically, a physical relationship with a café owner named Françoise, his memories of Anny, an English girl he once loved, even his own hands and the…
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