Jean-Paul Sartre (novel) - "Nausea"
Author's illustration by FORMOENART studio.
"...some mother will look at her child's cheek and ask: "What's that on your cheek? A pimple?" - and see how the cheek is suddenly swollen, cracked, ajar, and a third eye peeking out of the crack, a laughing eye. Or they will feel something gently rubbing against their whole body - the way the reeds in the river affectionately pour And they will know that their clothes have come to life. And one of them will feel something scraping at his mouth. He goes to the mirror, opens his mouth, and it is his tongue that has become a huge centipede
and it's scratching at his palate with its legs. He'll want to spit it out, but it's part of him, he'll have to pull his tongue out with his hands. And there will be many things that will have to be given new names..."
Jean-Paul Charles Emar Sartre - French philosopher, representative of atheistic existentialism, writer, playwright and essayist, teacher. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, which he refused.
