In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian, records the disturbing shifts in his perceptions and his struggle to restore meaning to life in a continuing present and without lies. This is Sartre's first published novel and his first extended essay on existential philosophy.
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terrible:
This book made me want to throw up after I realized what a bad purchase it was. I couldn't get through it. It's a tortuously slow read. Like those books in The Victorian Novel class. It's painful, it's hard so why put up with it. I didn't I gave it to the garbage collectors.
Dated Existentialist Mumbo Jumbo Caca:
"Now when I say 'I,' it seems hollow to me. I can't manage to feel myself very well, I am so forgotten. The only real thing left in me is existence which feels it exists. I yawn, lengthily." As do I. Can you imagine reading 178 pages of this folderol? Well I did :-( I exist, you exist, we exist, the tree exists, the chair exists, the door exists. I get it. What's your point? Simply because a train of thought that was in vogue two or three generations ago has a multi-syllabic label makes it neither... more info
A bellyache no amount of Tums can relieve...:
*Nausea* is quite simply one of the major touchstones of the "literature of alienation" that so marked the 20th century--a sickness we may have survived but never really recovered from, sort of like a spiritual AIDS. Sartre's psychologically claustrophobic tale of a youngish historian overwhelmed by existence sounds all the notes of paranoia, pointlessness, disgust, and dread elevated to a pitch of hysterical self-consciousness and over-sensibility that we find in the biographies of the antiheroes of... more info
A Press Conference with Jean-Paul Sartre:
The year is 1938. Jean-Paul Sartre has completed his novel Nausea. His publisher has sent advance copies of the novel to the press in order to prepare them for the large press conference which will coincide with the mainstream release of the novel. The following is an account of that stupendous moment in French history. After the publisher had finished reciting his usual list of literary clichés, the floor was opened for a general Q&A session. One brave reporter timidly raised his hand.... more info
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