Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea

Novel of existential alienation and meaninglessness in everyday bourgeois life

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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre

France's preeminent existentialist philosopher, playwright, and novelist, Sartre argued that existence precedes essence and that humans are condemned to be free. Being and Nothingness is his philosophical masterwork; Nausea his finest novel. He refused the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964.

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