ABSTRACT
Anguish and absurdity lie at the heart of Being and Nothingness. They lie, too, at the heart of Sartre’s novels of the same period, the title of one of which, Nausea, gives a pretty unambiguous indication of Sartre’s assessment of the human condition. In the last chapter we saw one account of why a clear view of our condition should induce nausea. But, so I claimed, without being properly aware that this is what he is doing, Sartre in fact provides a second and incompatible account of the nauseating character of human existence. This is the account I attribute to, as I call him, ‘Sartre-Two’, and to which I now turn.
