A quick summary

Nausea, written by Jean-Paul Sartre, is a novel set in 1930s France. It tells the story of Antoine Roquentin, an intellectually isolated, emotionally detached, and spiritually lost man who struggles to make sense of his life and his place in the world. Roquentin's inner struggle leads him to a metaphysical crisis, causing him to experience a profound sense of physical and psychological nausea, which he is unable to explain or escape. As he attempts to find meaning and understanding, Roquentin's life is filled with moments of intense introspection, despair, and alienation. Ultimately, he is forced to accept the existential truth that there is no inherent meaning to life, and he must make his own.