French writer Antoine Roquentin is disgusted at his own existence and catalogs his every thought and feeling.
General Note
"La Nausée was first published in 1938 by Librairie Gallimard. First published in the U.S. in 1959 as New Directions Paperbook 82. Reset edition published in 1969. Reissued in 2007 with a new introduction by Richard Howard. Reissued again in 2013 with additional introductory material by James Wood"--Title page verso.