was just about to post about this being a reference to sartre before i saw an above post. to expand, antoine roquentin is away working when he begins to experience sudden and very intense feelings of nausea. one day while sitting on a park bench he comes to realise that this is based on his growing realisation of the nature of existence. the labels man assigns to objects - "tree", "table", "coin" - are completely superfluous and wrong, as everything possesses a brutal, primitive existence and nothing more...
was just about to post about this being a reference to sartre before i saw an above post. to expand, antoine roquentin is away working when he begins to experience sudden and very intense feelings of nausea. one day while sitting on a park bench he comes to realise that this is based on his growing realisation of the nature of existence. the labels man assigns to objects - "tree", "table", "coin" - are completely superfluous and wrong, as everything possesses a brutal, primitive existence and nothing more...