Nick Traynor's Reviews > Nausea

An alarming exposition on the nature of the human condition, uncovering the aloneness and nothingness that characterise our existence. I never knew Sartre could be so poetic and aesthetic; what he achieves with his prose is to beautifully depict the solitary ingredients of nature and weave them into a vibrant, living portrait of our passing moments. A triumph – psychologically, intellectually and philosophically: drawing the veil from the banality of everyday life and revealing the panic and disgust which one must experience at perceiving the bare bones of being. The story of my life; Sartre's frank loneliness made me aware of my sanity. A radiant sabre of truth amidst a world of lies.