Their dialogue moves briskly, the scene resembling My Dinner with Andre with less banter and more neurosis. Significantly, the Self-Taught Man takes on a Crumb-like demeanor and aspect. As he listens to the Self-Taught Man’s troubles and ruminates on his own, Crumb’s Roquentin grows more Sartre-like. The characters alone, some critics suggest, imbue the book with a subtle parody. And that trouble is so vague, so metaphysical that I am ashamed of it.” Nausea, in one sense, is bourgeoise alienation, while Roquentin’s conversation partner, the Self-Taught Man, confesses a naïve humanist idealism. “I have no troubles,” thinks Roquentin in Robert Crumb’s short adaptation of the book above, “I have money like a capitalist, no boss, no wife, no children I exist, that’s all…. Though published before his many Marxist books and essays, Nauseaconnects the malaise to a certain class experience. The novel’s dramatization of Historian Roquentin’ s crisis presents a case of existential sickness as mostly involuntary. “Nausea is existence revealing itself-and experience is not pleasant to see,” he wrote in his own summary of his first book, published in 1938. Sartre’s novel Nauseaintroduced his philosophical view as a form of illness to a WWII readership.
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