First published in 1938. Sartre, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, creates the story of one Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. Inimpressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him...towards an effort to come to terms with life. A landmark work in Existentialist literature. 178p. Pap.
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First published in 1938. Sartre, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, creates the story of one Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. Inimpressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him...towards an effort to come to terms with life. A landmark work in Existentialist literature. 178p. Pap.