Nausea

Written by the husband of my all-time favourite heroine Simone de Beauvoir, this book was everything I hoped it would be. Jean-Paul Sartre used this novel to explain his theories on existential angst and it's an interesting piece. I might have thought that it would be a bit less realistic when I bought it but i wasn't disappointed.

Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for this book but he declined.

Nausea tells the story of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, who's trying to find some sense and purpose to his life. He has no friends and no family and even though his depression eases when he's not alone he refrins from anything that includes social interaction in a attempt to cling to the past. He misses his old lover who left him when she "had to move on".
Atoine travells south to escape the icky sweetness he expreience in Paris (nausea) and settles in a small town, isolated. Eventuellay he begins to question whether he exist or not.

The story is written in diary entries and I lways find it fascinating to read stories like that because it feels like I'm sneek-peeking into someone else'e privet thoughts that was never intended for me to read.