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Gallimard publishes La Nausée

In 1938 Éditions Gallimard published Jean-Paul Sartre’s La Nausée, a novel of Roquentin’s discovery that existence precedes the stories told about it. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1938 Éditions Gallimard published Jean-Paul Sartre’s La Nausée, a novel of Roquentin’s discovery that existence precedes the stories told about it. It is fiction, not a statute. Occupation plays and Temps modernes are later Facts.

Context

Sartre was a lycée teacher, not yet a household name. Husserl and Heidegger sat in the background of a French novel, not as co-signers. Simone de Beauvoir’s own early work is neighbouring, not absorbed.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Why it matters

High confidence on 1938 publication.

Shared responsibility is part of Gallimard publishes La Nausée. Naming Jean-Paul Sartre does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1938-04-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Jean-Paul Sartre

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He wrote the novel. Gallimard printed it; readers bought it. Not a ministry text.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — NauseaEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Éditions Gallimard — portalÉditions Gallimard · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Gallimard at https://www.gallimard.fr/ (opens in a new tab) is the official publisher home of La Nausée. Britannica’s Nausea article at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nausea-novel-by-Sartre (opens in a new tab) independently dates the 1938 novel.

Established: Gallimard issued La Nausée in 1938. Not established: a unique enrolment series in philosophy caused by the novel. Contribution is recorded as He wrote the novel. Gallimard printed it; readers bought it. Not a ministry text. The dated heading stays Gallimard publishes La Nausée on 1938-04-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date. Bound 1 for sartre-nausee-1938: the instrument remains Gallimard publishes La Nausée (1938-04-01), with official locator https://www.gallimard.fr/ (opens in a new tab) and independent locator https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nausea-novel-by-Sartre (opens in a new tab), not a later museum door or a translated schoolbook treated as this act.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. 1938 Nausea is not 1943 Being and Nothingness. Mixed effects of Gallimard publishes La Nausée are separate paths.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorJean-Paul Sartre
  2. contributed toFactGallimard publishes La Nausée
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Gallimard publishes La Nausée. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sartre-nausee-1938

https://factrail.ai/facts/sartre-nausee-1938

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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