
Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
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Narrated by:
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Edoardo Ballerini
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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 chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain.”
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. La Nausée, his first and best novel, is a landmark in existential fiction and a key work of the 20th century.
©1938, 1964, 2000 Editions Gallimard, New Directions Publishing Corp.,James Wood, Richard Howard (P)2021 New Directions Publishing Corp.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Amazing book
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The profundity of this work is impossible to ignore. It attempts to capture so much of life's absurdity, and miraculously it nearly succeeds in its efforts on every front. I was wowed by the beauty of it, as it flowed like the river of thought inside my own head, and yet, like a stream of consciousness poem brought vividly to fruition.
So many statements seemed to leap out at me from the ether, to say, let this define the now.
I am in awe of this work. It's placed itself prominently in the essential building blocks of what I consider the best novels ever written. I loved it so much I consumed the majority of it twice in rapid succession. An incomparable masterpiece of language. Art distilled to one of its most fundamental elements. The search for meaning, and lasting relevance, in a temporary existence.
Simply unbelievable how deep and true every page of this sings to me.
Brilliant beyond words
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Stunning and Inspiring
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An important work for philosophy and fiction
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However, I would recommend familiarizing yourself with the main points of Sartre’s essay Existentialism Is A Humanism, before listening to this audiobook. This will help familiarize yourself with the concepts that Sartre is conveying through this novel as a medium, such as existential anguish and dread, but this is an enthralling experience regardless, and I think the writing stands on its own. This audiobook is truly an immersion into the protagonist’s “naseau.”
A dizzying, immersive experience
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The self taught man and antoine are the same person
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Immediately restarted after 1st listening
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Fantastic, highly recommend
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Well Done But Unengaging
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Sartre's Opus
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