What was Sartre's opinion on his novel which included the character The Autodidact?
The Autodidact The Autodidact is a fictional character from Jean-Paul Sartre's 1938 novel, "Nausea." The Autodidact, who lives in Bouville near the protagonist Antoine Roquentin, passes his time by reading every book in the local library in alphabetical order. Self instruction is of critical importance to him, and provides the explanation for his odd behaviour and continual self-delusion.
Jules de Gaultier Jules de Gaultier (born in 1858 in Paris, died in 1942 in Boulogne-sur-Mer), born Jules Achille de Gaultier de Laguionie, was a French philosopher and essayist. He was a contributor to "Mercure de France" and one of the chief advocates of "nietzscheism" in vogue in the literary circles of the day. He was known especially for his theory of "bovarysme" (the name taken from Flaubert's novel), by which he meant the continual need of humans to invent themselves, to lie to themselves. His books include "De Kant à Nietzsche" (1900) and "Le Bovarysme, essai sur le pouvoir d'imaginer" (1902).