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    In what novel does the hero attempt to write a biography of an 18th century European politician but is overcome by a 'sweetish sickness'?

    Question #745. Asked by rachel. (Apr 06 00 11:29 AM)


    essaychess

    		Nausea, by Sartre

    Apr 06 00, 1:56 PM
    zbeckabee

    		La Nausée is a novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, written in 1938 while he was a college professor. It is one of Sartre's best-known novels.

    Written in the form of journal entries, it follows 30-year-old Antoine Roquentin who, returned from years of travel, settles in the 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" he calls nausea increasingly impinges on almost everything he does or enjoys.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausea_%28novel%29#Plot_summary

    Jan 14 08, 5:49 PM

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