When did Jean-Paul Sartre publish his first novel Nausea?
Jean-Paul Sartre published his first novel Nausea in April 1938. He wrote to Simone de Beauvoir three months later stating he had found the subject of freedom for his next work.
Jean-Paul Sartre published his first novel Nausea in April 1938. He wrote to Simone de Beauvoir three months later stating he had found the subject of freedom for his next work.
The story centers on Mathieu Delarue, an unmarried philosophy professor whose principal wish is to remain free. Marcelle serves as his pregnant mistress within the narrative and Daniel appears as a homosexual friend shared by both Mathieu and Marcelle.
At one point during this period, Jean-Paul Sartre produced seventy-three pages of text in just thirteen days while assigned to a meteorological unit. He completed the first volume by the 31st of December 1939 and immediately started a sequel known as The Reprieve.
Ronald Hayman theorized that Jean-Paul Sartre deeply disliked bringing anything to conclusion and managed to complete nine original plays yet abandoned nearly all other major projects. Simone de Beauvoir stated he always found work needing attention more than finishing the series.
The Age of Reason and The Reprieve were published together after the war in September 1945. Jean-Paul Sartre had become France's leading intellectual voice by that time when the novels received great enthusiasm from the French public.