Nausea by Sartre

I once had an old paperback of Sartre’s Nausea and I still remember the cover image of a young man holding his stomach and grimacing—that’s the feeling I get whenever I think of meaningful novels or the danger of fictionalizing my own stories or even changing the names of people in a memoir. I hang on to facts like death clings to life.

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Cover of the 1964 English edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea, 7^th printing; New Directions Publishing.