As sedate as swans: the Parisian side of Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée

Title: As sedate as swans: the Parisian side of Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée
Creator: Rolls, Alistair
Relation: Remembering Paris in Text and Film p. 127-149
Publisher: Intellect
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2021
Description: At a certain point quite early in La Nausée (Nausea), Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel of 1938, at a point at which the novel is still self-consciously grappling with the importance of writing (itself as) a diary and resisting the almost inevitable pull of its own (ostensibly as yet unformed) ending, which will of course make of it the literary output that it is always destined to be and which arguably it is from its very outset, the story’s protagonist, Antoine Roquentin, refers rather curiously to some of the pieces of paper that, he reveals to the reader, he likes to pick up from the muddy ground as swans: ‘D’autres tout neufs et même glacés, tout blancs, tout palpitants, sont posés comme des cygnes, mais déjà la terre les englue par en dessous [Others which are new and even shiny, white and palpitating, are as sedate as swans, but the earth has already ensnared them from below]’.
Subject: France; individual film directors; film makers; literary studies
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1448922
Identifier: uon:43518
Identifier: ISBN:9781789384185
Language: eng