Hands
Antoine is a handyman. He's a little handsy. He's all hands on deck.Nope. No amount of wordplay can disguise the fact that Antoine is just a sadsack facing a doozy of an existential crisis. But it...
Crabs
We used to love crabs: crabs with butter, crabcakes, Krabby Patties, Sad Crab… but now that we've read Nausea, crabs just seem existentially confusing.At several points in this book, Antoine comp...
The Marquis de Rollebon
Ugh. Guys, we wish that we could tell you that the Marquis de Rollebon symbolized world peace or true love… but our noses would grow five feet long, Pinocchio-style.The Marquis de Rollebon is a t...
The Sea
Throughout the diary that makes up Nausea, Antoine stares out at the ocean and thinks about it as a symbol for how vast and uncaring the universe is. Yup. Antoine is dictating his symbols for us—...