A character in this novel wakes from a "six-year slumber" while staring at a Khmer statue and smelling the perfume from Mercier's beard.
A character in this novel wakes from a "six-year slumber" while staring at a Khmer statue and smelling the perfume from Mercier's beard. Its protagonist becomes enraged while listening to another character explain how he became a humanist during his time as a prisoner of war, prompting the abrupt end of an awkward lunch. A character in this novel gets punched in the face by a Corsican who reveals him as a pederast, thus prematurely ending a plan to (*) read all the books in a library in alphabetical order. This novel is set in Bouville, where the protagonist has an affair with the owner of a cafe called the "Railwaymen's Rendezvous", researches the Marquis de Rollebon, and chats with the Self-Taught Man, until he is overcome by a powerful sense of alienation. For 10 points, name this Jean-Paul Sartre novel in which Antoine Roquentin (roh-ken-tahn) suffers from the title "sweetish sickness".
A character in this novel wakes from a "six-year slumber" while staring at a Khmer statue and smelling the perfume from Mercier's beard.
Nausea [or La Nausée] &lt;Carson&gt;