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Getting to the roots of nausea in the work of jean paul sartre jstor. Jeanpaul sartre luminary learners project by psychdelicacy. Nausea is the story of antoine roquentin, a french. Nausea by jeanpaul sartre the 333rd greatest fiction. This novel tells the ontological experience of roquentin, a young studient, who came in bouville to study the story of an emigrant through the archives of the city. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20thcentury french philosophy and marxism. Jeanpaul sartre is another one of those hip, nihilistictype novelists than whiney, depressive young men read inbetween bouts of bingedrinking and scrawling poetry on the backs of cigarette packets. Born in paris in 1905 and died in 1980, sartre was awarded the nobel prize for literature in 1964and turned it down.
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