Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

French philosophical novels

Nausea (French: La Nausée) is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel.

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  1. Germinal

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's thirteenth and most successful novel in his Rougon-Macquart series, in which a strike breaks out in a destitute French mining village.

    26 October 2023

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    Featuring: Susan Harrow, Kate Griffiths, Edmund Birch

     
  2. Voltaire's Candide

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Voltaire's satirical novel Candide, first published in 1759.

    3 May 2012

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    Featuring: David Wootton, Nicholas Cronk, Caroline Warman