A review by azure_dawn
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

5.0

Perfect example of theme-based storytelling and using philosophy as a tool to create conflict and drive the story forward. The actual plot of the book is about main character faffing about the town and having seizures from boredom and meaninglessness of life, but, somehow, Sartre managed to make that interesting and entertaining. And, what I love most about this book, it nails the ending. The ending is not a resolution of a conflict, or a happy end, or a sad end. The ending is about the theme of the story. The ending is the answer to the philosophical quesiton, on which the whole book is built. And this is a feat, that suprisingly little authors manage to pull off. Sartre knew what his story's heart was, and did everything right to tell the best story this premise allowed for.