Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
The novel follows a historian living in a small French town, struggling with a strange and unsettling feeling of disgust and revulsion he calls 'nausea'. He grapples with the existential dread of his own existence and the meaningless of life, continually questioning his own perceptions and the nature of reality. As he navigates through his everyday life, he is plagued by his philosophical thoughts and the overwhelming sensation of nausea, leading him to a profound existential crisis.
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- 6th on The Ideal Library (Book)
- 22nd on 100 Best Novels, in Translation, Since 1900 (CounterPunch)
- 25th on The 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century (Folha de São Paulo)
- 44th on The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (Telegraph)
- 63rd on 100 Essential Books (Bravo! Magazine)
- 64th on 100 Books of Classical and Modern Foreign Literature (The Union of Russian Writers)
- 214th on The 500 best books of all time from Culture Café users (Culture Café)
- 391st on The Complete 500: OCLC (OCLC)
- 615th on Our Users' Favorite Books of All Time (The Greatest Books Users)
- Masterpieces of World Literature (Frank N. Magill)
- The 100 Best Books in the World (AbeBooks.de (in German))
- 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
- The Graphic Canon (Book)
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