ABSTRACT
Jean-Paul Sartre's first and most famous novel, 'Nausea', the diarist Roquentin records his final reflections on the jazz tune that has haunted him throughout the book. Instead it shows precisely why the young Jean-Paul Sartre should later be burdened with a greatness that the family, impressed by his precociousness, was intent on investing him with. With the ironic acknowledgment that 'It was Paradise' and continues with the boy, unruffled by the 'cheerful inconsistency' of reality, separating humanity into sheep and goats, thus making it a kind of Last Judgment also. 'Les Mots' Sartre describes the transition from writing as a false imposture to writing as a true one. Sartre's new orientation towards reality is still, however, bedevilled by a lingering attachment to previous impostures. Sartre's achievement has been so exceptionally varied that it is only natural for commentators to have been intent on what a recent critic has called the 'internal contestation' in Sartre's works.
