Nausea : Key info
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Key Facts
- Writer: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 – 1980), An atheist
- Original Title: La Nausée (French name)
- Source: Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological method & Sartre’s sense of isolation during his time as a teacher in Le Havre, France,
- Written Time: From 1932 to 1936
- Published Date: 1938 in France. 1949 in England
- Form: Written in a Diary.
- Genre: Philosophical Novel, Existentialist Fiction
- Tone: Reflective, Philosophical, Melancholic
- Point of View: First-person (from the perspective of Antoine Roquentin)
- Total Pages: 253
- Total Chapters: 33 chapters
- Setting:
- Time Setting: Early 1930s
- Place Setting: France (primarily in the fictional town of Bouville)