# Gallimard publishes La Nausée

Date: 1938

## The fact

In 1938 Éditions Gallimard published [Jean-Paul Sartre](/people/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. Do not treat later biopics as this 1938 printing.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Éditions Gallimard — portal (https://www.gallimard.fr/; Éditions Gallimard).

## Significance

Education-and-culture path, modest-to-mid weight. 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.

## What is established and what is not

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 impact note is A published novel of contingent existence widened access to a vernacular metaphysics, a modest education-and-culture path. The dated heading stays Gallimard publishes La Nausée on 1938-04-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. 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/ and independent locator https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nausea-novel-by-Sartre, 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.

## People

- Jean-Paul Sartre: https://factrail.ai/people/jean-paul-sartre

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nausea-novel-by-Sartre
- https://www.gallimard.fr/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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