![]() ![]() Roquentin decides that the past is a meaningless concept that does not exist, people use the past to take a “vacation from existence”. Roquentin is overcome by a feeling of nausea as he realises that he had been attempting to resuscitate a historical figure from the past in order to justify his own existence. He is at war with Bouville, literally “mud-town” (where he lives), at war with the regulars at the café, at war with the two principal characters with whom he interacts, which are in some way his doubles: Anny (his former lover) and the Autodidact (who has spent hundreds of hours reading at the library, and who thinks he can learn all there is to know by reading every book available in alphabetical order), and finally, he is at war with himself. He is a solitary figure and a solipsist he has no friends and usually eavesdrops on other people’s conversations and watches their actions. His life revolves around writing this book, going to cafés, and spending many hours in the library. ![]()
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