One character in this work listens to a recording of the jazz song "Some of these Days" on a battered phonograph in a cafe, and another is kicked out of a library after making advances on a young boy. The central character of this work makes advances on a café owner named Francoise, and remembers his fling with the fat English girl Anny. The protagonist, a historian, tries to reconstruct the life of the Marquise of Rollebon before meeting "the Self-Taught Man" Ogier P. in the seaport town of Bou
One character in this work listens to a recording of the jazz song "Some of these Days" on a battered phonograph in a cafe, and another is kicked out of a library after making advances on a young boy. The central character of this work makes advances on a café owner named Francoise, and remembers his fling with the fat English girl Anny. The protagonist, a historian, tries to reconstruct the life of the Marquise of Rollebon before meeting "the Self-Taught Man" Ogier P. in the seaport town of Bouville. The protagonist becomes obsessed with the idea that objects are "touching" him, and questions his existence, asking if he is a "mere figment of the imagination." For 10 points, name this novel about the "sweetish sickness" that Antoine Roquentin experiences, a work by Sartre.
One character in this work listens to a recording of the jazz song "Some of these Days" on a battered phonograph in a cafe, and another is kicked out of a library after making advances on a young boy.
Nausea [or La Nausée]