Distressed French writer Antoine Roquentin begins a daily diary documenting the minute details of his life. In his quest to find meaning in his everyday activities, Roquentin slowly begins to realize life is without meaning. Includes an introduction describing the existentialist beliefs of Sartre explored in the novel.
Presents Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist novel, first published in 1938, in which Antoine Roquentin, a French writer, chronicles his reactions to the world and people around him, which combine to give him an overpowering feeling of nausea.
