The French philosopher and man of letters Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) ranks as the most versatile writer and as the dominant influence in three decades of French intellectual life. Jean Paul Sartre was born in Paris on June 21, 1905. His father, a naval...

The French philosopher and man of letters Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) ranks as the most versatile writer and as the dominant influence in three decades of French intellectual life. Jean Paul Sartre was born in Paris on June 21, 1905. His father, a naval...

The name Jean-Paul Sartre is recognized by millions around the world. By the time of his death in 1980 he was a public figure throughout Europe and something of a French and even worldwide intellectual property. His volumes have been translated into doze...

Help is on the way-at work and at home. Pregnancy brings many joys, but nausea is certainly not one of them. Affecting about 70 to 85 percent of pregnant women to some degree, it can be particularly difficult for working moms-to-be, who have...

Nausea and vomiting symptoms affect 70% to 85% of pregnant women during early pregnancy. These symptoms can have a dramatic effect on a woman's family, social, and occupational functioning. Hence, nausea and vomiting of pregnancy is a medical condition that should be taken seriously...

La Nausée (1938) is one of the most problematic works of contemporary literature. This is not only because of the uncertainties of its meaning, but also—and more important—because of the uncertainties of its place in the chronology of "modernism." The discussion of these matters is so tangled that it is impossible to categorize it without grossly oversimplifying the issues at stake. It can be said …—and this may be one of the fundamental sources of the uncert...

Jean-Paul Sartre, whose first novel, "Nausea," had a biographer as its hero, spent the last 10 years of his working life on a massive psychobiography of a writer he had always detested for his estheticism and his reactionary opinions—Gustave Flaubert. He customarily explained this curious project as an attempt to synthesize what can be understood today about an individual life, given what we have learned from a century of work in psychoanalysis, social psychology, linguistics, anthropol...

[Nausea is] an onslaught on the "normal" or what is ordinarily taken for the normal. Unlike Sartre's later political novels, it is interesting because the attack is phenomenological, not political, an examination, that is, of the way things are. What interests us about Roquentin, the protagonist of Nausea, in the present context is his conscious and deliberate alienation from those very aspects of French culture which by ordinary standards one would judge as eminently normal, for exampl...