Nausea

Sartre's greatest novel and existentialism's key text now introduced by James Wood and read by the inimitable Edoardo Ballerini.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle at the bottom of our time the time of purple suspenders and broken cha...See More