Nausea Author:Jean-Paul Sartre New translations of Sartre's celebrated first novel. Written in 1938, Nausea remains one of the peaks of Sartre's acheivement. It is a novel of the alienation of personality and the mystery of being, and presents the first full-length essay in the philosophy of existentialism, which Sartre made famous. Cover: The Triangular Hour by Salvador Dali.