"Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering fe…
"Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering fe…
"Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes …
Feeling overwhelmed by the emptiness in his life, a documentary movie maker abandons his wife and career for a solitary existence in a Parisian suburb, where he develops an obsessive longing for someone he met briefly twenty years earlier.
After a beautiful and accomplished young actress revives a downcast stranger at a French resort, he reveals that he is immortal.