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SOURCE: “Sartre's Nature: Animal Images in La Nausée,” in Symposium, Vol. 31, Summer, 1977, pp. 107-25.
In the following essay, Brosman argues that the animals in Jean-Paul Sartre's novel La Nausée are intended to represent the worst in human nature.
Although a number of scholars have noted the presence in Jean-Paul Sartre's fiction of images of insects and crabs, the role of numerous other animal images in La Nausée and their psychological and philosophical suggestiveness have not been fully explored.1 In the present essay I shall be concerned to study these in relation to its thematics and to draw some conclusions concerning Sartre's early view of nature. While not proposing a new reading of the novel, I believe this study can show additional aspects of its thematic construction and imaginative fabric.
This examination might be organized according to types of figures of speech, or according to the...
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