Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Taste attributes: dramaslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticintricategrittyemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipsocial commentaryunlikely connections
Boxlist takeA grounded, unhurried novel: weighty and inventive. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
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Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: gritty · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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3.9 / 5
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About This Book
A fascinating existentialist novel, written in the form of a journal, about a historian who moves to a small port in northern France to research a biography he is intending to write. Whilst there his senses become dulled and he becomes increasingly disgusted by his own existence, finding no solace with friends or a woman he begins an affair with.
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- Author
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Published
- 1938
- Pages
- 240
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- Open Library
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