Sartre's original title for the novel before publication was Melancholia. Roquentin's growing alienation and disillusionment coincide with an increasingly intense experience of revulsion, which he calls "the nausea", in which the people and things around him seem to lose all their familiar and recognizable qualities. It comprises the thoughts and subjective experiences-in a personal diary format-of Antoine Roquentin, a melancholic and socially isolated intellectual who is residing in Bouville ostensibly for the purpose of completing a biography on a historical figure. The novel takes place in 'Bouville' ( homophone of Boue-ville, literally, 'Mud town') a town similar to Le Havre. Nausea ( French: La Nausée) is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938.
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