{"product_id":"9780811222525","title":"Nausea","description":"\u003cp\u003eSartre's greatest novel — and existentialism's key text — now introduced by James Wood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNausea\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time — the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre — philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist — holds a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. \u003cem\u003eLa Nausée\u003c\/em\u003e, his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128335745264,"sku":"9780811222525","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811222525_p0.jpg?v=1763747261","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811222525","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}