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Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

Hardcover | Pages: 178 pages

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Original Title:	La Nausée
ISBN:	0811201880 (ISBN13: 9780811201889)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Antoine Roquentin, l'Autodidacte, Anny
Literary Awards:	Grand Prix des meilleurs romans du demi-siècle Nominee (1950)

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Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him.

His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain."

Roquentin's efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed.

The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself.

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Title	:	Nausea
Author	:	Jean-Paul Sartre
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 178 pages
Published	:	1969 by New Directions (first published 1938)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Fiction. Classics. Cultural. France. Literature

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Third time lucky...I have always preferred the work of Albert Camus when it comes to the subject of 'existentialism'. It has taken me three attempts to read Nausea to finally appreciate. Whereas I just found Camus easier to digest immediately. This small novel is no doubt an important work and essential reading for philosophical purposes. I remember reading Camus's 'The Stranger and Sartre's Nausea back to back, similar in some ways, not in others, The Stranger lingered for weeks, Nausea drifted

An awakening not asked for yet fortunate. A review quietly gathering momentum that will appear when its time has come.Hmm. It's here. But how...Opening the cover I immediately slipped into Sartres cunning first person, becoming a first person. The Editors Note following the introduction which I usually refuse to read until I am finished with the book, is three short paragraphs unveiling important information, then beneath the next space and centered is, Undated Pages. In order to reap and fit

A Novel of Ideas?Much criticism of "Nausea" describes it as a novel of ideas, as if this is necessarily a pejorative term.To me, the term (as used in this negative context) implies that the characters are a mere mouthpiece for ideas or ideologies, and that they simply argue with each other until a resolution is reached (or not).I question whether this characterisation applies to "Nausea", and would like to make a case for an alternative perspective on the novel in this review.Ironically, to

Two of the blurbs on the book jacket call this book Sartres most enjoyable book and the best written and most interesting of Sartres novels. Perhaps I dont know as the only other one Ive read is No Exit, and so long ago I have no recollection of it. Nauseas structure is that of a diary. Wikipedia calls the novel one of the canonical works of existentialism. The main character is Antoine Roquentin, apparently independently wealthy, spends most of his day in the library researching and writing a

SARTRE HAD IT RIGHT; BUT HE TOOK IT THE WRONG WAY.In this book, Sartre saw correctly that our world is Crazy Sick. But by sidestepping the problem through Reason, he made it worse for himself. And in the end he died of it.Thats his problem. If we dont admit were all infected with this Crazy Sickness, we wont seek - or find - REAL HELP. Well be in Terminal Denial. We all need Help.The other day, I decided to skim this novel again, after so many years had passed since I read it, and was

Back in my school, when I took Sanskrit for the first time as a language, I was fascinated by it. Like Mathematics, I felt that anything and everything could be explained by Sanskrit. The language of the wise and experienced, it had its roots dating back to millions of centuries and was contributed to swell to its current form by thousands of brilliant minds and astute practitioners of life and non-life forms. The stream was so vivacious and bountiful that by just touching its surface, i.e., by

Fear, anxiety, suffering, freedom, and self-deception that's the human condition right there for you folks.Nothing matters.Life is meaningless. Life is pointless. Life is empty.I'm going to have to reread this again to fully wrap my head around it.