But with its final pages “Nausea” is not a book without a solution. Sartre’s first novel was a work without a solution, by which I mean that it no more opens up any solutions for the universe than the principal works of Dostoevsky, it would perhaps be a singular success without a successor. The law of the man who is rigorously alone is not the fear of nothingness, but the fear of existence.
For the German philosopher the object of anguish is nothingness for M. It would, however, be wrong to rush – as some will not fail to do – to bring together M. Sartre’s literature bears no relation to this frivolous genre, but it gives a very good idea of what a literature associated to an existentialist philosophy might be. Since Voltaire, we know that the in France the philosophical novel has been a light genre, not far from the fable.
Sartre there is no doubt that we possess a philosophical novelist of the first order. They are analyzed with a rigor of thought and expression that will no doubt seem intolerable to most readers. It is a question here of nothing but the spiritual results of solitude. “Nausea,” the journal of Antoine Roquentin, is the novel of absolute solitude. Sartre only questions the fact of existence, which is an order of reality much more immediate than the human and social elaborations of the life that is on this side of life. Kafka always questioned the meaning of life. I would say that Sartre could be a French Kafka by virtue of his gift for expressing the horror of certain intellectual situations, if it weren’t that his ideas, unlike those of the author of “The Great Wall of China,” were not completely foreign to moral problems. Jean-Paul Sartre who is, I think, a philosophy professor, and to whom we owe an excellent book on “Les Images,” has just made a startling debut in the novel. Source: Pour une nouvelle culture, Paris, Grasset, 1971 ĬopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) 2008. Paul Nizan 1938 Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Nausea” Jean-Paul Sartre's 'Nausea' by Paul Nizan 1938
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