Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Translator: Lloyd Alexander Original publication date: 1938 Edition: New Directions (paperback) 1969 # of pages: 178 Source: Local library
Back of the book: Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation

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Nice review. Here was my take on the book.

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I stopped in front of Julien’s pork butcher shop. Through the glass, from time to time, I could see a hand designing the truffled pigs feet and the sausages. Then a fat blonde girl bent over, her bosom showing, and picked up a piece of dead flesh between her fingers. In his room five minutes from there, M. Fasquelle was dead