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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Extreme existential despair; the terror of radical freedom and meaninglessness
What this book is about
Sartre's 1938 debut novel follows Antoine Roquentin, who experiences an overwhelming sense of nausea at the raw, meaningless existence of objects and himself. The foundational existentialist novel. Philosophically dark but not violent or sexual. For older teens and adults.
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Extreme existential despair and nihilism
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