Exactly how steamy is this story?
R
For a book that's mostly about a guy living inside his own (dirty) mind, Nausea can get super graphic in its sexual descriptions.
Antoine starts the novel off by talking about his casual sexual relationship with the owner of his favorite bar. Later, he reads a story in the newspaper about a young girl who was raped and murdered. Later still, he sees the Self-Taught Man making sexual advances on a young boy, and at one point, Antoine even describes all of existence as one giant vagina.
Without doubt, if you're concerned about graphic sexual language, be aware that there's plenty of it in Nausea. And it ain't always romantic.