Antoine Roquentin is the protagonist in Sartre's novel Nausea, and the song deals with the same existential theme as the book. It also place emphasis on artistic creation being a vital aspect of existence "the photographic momentary work of our senses ".
In the novel, Roquentin embodies the Sartrean thesis that states that the past and the future do not exist, only the present does.
We have to dare to live in the now, and accept that the past is gone
Antoine Roquentin is the protagonist in Sartre's novel Nausea, and the song deals with the same existential theme as the book. It also place emphasis on artistic creation being a vital aspect of existence "the photographic momentary work of our senses ". In the novel, Roquentin embodies the Sartrean thesis that states that the past and the future do not exist, only the present does.
We have to dare to live in the now, and accept that the past is gone