Nausea is the essence of being for people stuck 'in the daily bustle'. People — abandoned to the mercy of an alien, merciless, dismal reality.
Nausea is the impossibility of love and trust, it is — simply — the inability of a man and a woman to understand each other.
Nausea is that very 'other side of despair', beyond which lies Freedom.
But — what is a person, maddened by loneliness, to do with this cursed freedom?..
JEAN-PAUL CHARLES AYMARD SARTRE — French philosopher, representative of atheistic existentialism, writer, playwright, essayist, and teacher. Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1964 (he declined the prize).
Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris and was the only child in the family. When Jean-Paul was just 15 months old, his father died. The family moved to his grandparents’ house in Meudon.
Sartre was educated at the lycées of La Rochelle, graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris with a dissertation in philosophy, and trained at the French Institute in Berlin (1934).…
