Of his parents and his education we know absolutely nothing, except that around the age of 15, in 1917, he appears in La Rochelle, listening to the whistling of American soldiers. It would appear as if Antoine was born in 1902, in or around Paris, because at the age of 8 we find him playing in the Luxembourg gardens. So I hope you will bear with me if, in my obsession for getting my facts straight, I begin by trying to see what exacdy Sartre lets me know about the life of his protagonist, Antoine Roquentin. To make things worse, I am a very methodical plodder. Antoine Roquentin, Historian? A Critical Look at Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea Paul Sonnino I am a historian of early modern Europe, and my only qualification for being here today to speak on Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea is that the distinguished organizer of this conference, Ernest Sturm, has graciously invited me to do so.
PaulSennino, however,pleasedsome andupset others by challenging the historiographical, literary, andphilosophical, credentials of one of the most celebratedthinkers of ourtime. At this conference there was no shortage of aduktion. " He died in 1980, mourned as a national and international sage, and in 2005, the centennial of his birth, commemorations of his life and work tookplace all over the world, including at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
This novel, with its unconventionalform and antisocial tone, laid thefoundation for Sartre's notoriety in prewar France, a notoriety that survived the occupation and reachedits %enitb during thepostwaryears, when his name became synonymous with the intellectual movement of "existentialism. As a result, he leavesforParis to devote himself to thepursuit of art. The historian, Antoine Roquentin, finds himself increasingly disgusted by everything and everyone around him, leading him to question his rationality andhis thoughts, andto abandon his research, untilfinally, in a climactic confrontation with a chestnut tree, he breaks through to a definitivegrasp of existence. Itwas his account of a crisis in the life of an eccentric historian residing in a drab hotelin aprovincialFrench seaport, doing research on an obscure nobleman of the Revolutionary andNapoleonic eras. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ģ4 Historically Speaking September/October 2007 JEAN-PAUL SARTRE PUBUSHED HIS FIRST NOVEL LA Nausée in 1938.
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