Bulantı: İleri Sanayi Toplumu İnsanının Romanı

Abstract

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), who, through his innovative ideas, exercised a great influence on a large public, denounced in Nausea, a work which detaches itself from the beauty and good of the traditional novel and reflects his existentialist philosophy, the inadequacy of the exterior world of man and the shackles of advanced industrial society as reflected in the period between the two wars. At the advent of industrialization, the individual, who is considered as a supreme value is, subsequently, drawn towards fragmentation, along with the changes in economic structure, and will thus be witness to the loss of the qualitative values such as love, marriage and family. It is in this atmosphere, in which industrialization has 1 metamorphosed man into an incomprehensible monster, that Roquentin, the character in Nausea, lives solitarily, isolated from society and thirsting for vengeance. The more he lives in isolation, the more he exploits his freedom. Being conscious of his own existence, he makes observations about himself and objects. Roqentin successively becomes deeply reflective. By completely criticizing the values transmitted by his heritage, he doesn't hesitate to vituperate the stereotypical ideas of the West.Certain critics put Sartre's Nausea among the precursors of the New Novel from the point of view of structure and content, like the accidental existence of Roquentin, his creation of his own significance, his interest in objective appearance and the abandonment of man to a process of self-destruction, solitude and freedom.