Nausea
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Antoine Roquentin
The protagonist and diarist who experiences existential nausea while living in Bouville
Roquentin is a solitary intellectual working on a historical biography who becomes overwhelmed by existence
Nausea
The physical and metaphysical revulsion Roquentin feels when confronted with the sheer fact of existence
Nausea is the bodily experience of existential awareness when things reveal their contingent being
Bouville
The fictional French coastal town where Roquentin lives and experiences his crisis
Bouville meaning Mudtown represents the provincial bourgeois world Roquentin observes and criticizes
Contingency
The philosophical concept that things exist without necessity or reason
Contingency means existence has no foundation or justification and things simply are without why
The Chestnut Tree Root
The object that triggers Roquentin most intense experience of nausea and insight
The root reveals existence as absurd excessive and without essence or justification
Anny
Roquentin former lover whom he hopes will provide meaning but who has also changed
Anny represents failed hope that another person or the past could save Roquentin from meaninglessness
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