Novel nausea5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. But lately Roquentin feels unable to write, unable to order his research into any meaningful pattern that does not feel merely willful: Antoine Roquentin has come to the seaside town of Bouville to research the Marquis de Rollebon, an 18th-century political intriguer. The novel takes the form of a lonely and well-traveled intellectual’s diary. ![]() Given the persistence of its theme and method, then, Nausea necessitates a closer look. Sartre’s novel also exemplifies the limits of this aesthetic. In the Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic 1938 first novel, you can find many of the characteristics of the last decade or two’s contemporary fiction: fragmentation, negative affect, indifference to plot or style, veiled autobiography, and a general conviction of ambient meaninglessness lit only by brief flares of scarcely consoling insight. ![]()
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