Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea (1938) | Book Review and Analysis

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 1964 was awarded to Jean-Paul Sartre, who declined the award, pointing out that he never accepted any official honors and that no author "should allow himself to be turned into an institution." This is a reflection on Nausea (La Nausée). English translation by Richard Howard published by New Directions. Spanish translation by Aurora Bernárdez published by Losada.

The images at the beginning of the video show the bookstore El Ateneo Grand Splendid, located in Buenos Aires, which was once voted #2 of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

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This is the critical article I mention in the video:
McGuinn, Marie. "The Writer and Society: An Interpretation of Nausea." British Journal of Aesthetics 37.2 (1997): 118-128. [Also included in the Jean-Paul Sartre volume of the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series.]

Contents:
00:00 – The second most beautiful bookstore in the world
01:15 – My experience with Sartre
02:34 – About Nausea: publication, similar texts, dedication, etc.
04:34 – Structure, subgenre, and premise
05:20 – Preliminaries: the "Note from the Editors" and the "loose pages"
06:17 – Two simultaneous texts
07:30 – The protagonist: Antoine Roquentin and his circumstances
08:15 – A personal experience that helped me understand the protagonist and the novel
09:25 – What is the "Nausea"?
09:56 – Other characters
10:54 – Two parts to the novel
11:11 – The first part: banality and despair
13:19 – The second part: revelation and crisis / Regarding "être de trop"
16:51 – Antoine and Descartes
18:52 – Nausea and existentialism
20:14 – Writing as a theme
23:30 – Bottom line
24:40 – An antidote?