![]() Yet, in their brief interaction, she confides in Antoine that she no longer believes in her ability to create “perfect moments.” Even the passion that once defined her has left. Although she has given up acting professionally, she still acts in an elusive and perhaps artificial way. ![]() When they meet weeks later, she reveals that she’s “being kept” by a man and that she feels as if she’s changed. ![]() She sends him a letter early in the novel, letting him know she’ll be in Paris soon and that she “must" see him. His response is not suicide instead he chooses to continue living and to vacate Bouville (a fictional town in France) for Paris, and after hearing “Some of These Days,” his favorite song, he decides to write a novel. He loses his faith in the history he is writing as the novel proceeds, becomes increasingly misanthropic, and eventually realizes that there is no reason for living. ![]() Much of these diaries are made up of Antoine analyzing his experience of what he calls “the Nausea,” a visceral disgust borne out of the existence of things. ![]() Seemingly a trained historian, he is contemplative and analytical in the diaries which make up the novel. Antoine is the narrator of Nausea, with the exception of the "Editors' Note" at the novel's beginning. ![]()
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