Nausea
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 timethe...more
Paperback, 178 pages
Published
June 1st 1969
by New Directions Publishing
(first published January 1st 1938)
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Jun 09, 2007
Jahn Sood
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
someone who is more emotional stable than me.
I put a longer review of this book / a journal entry that I wrote while I was reading it in "my writing" since it was too long for this page.
6.9.07
Nausea is not a good thing to have as the only thing that belongs to you, and even worse as the only thing that you belong to. It is sickening and dark and so terribly everyday that it gets inside you if you let it. Sartre writes beautifully and describes the physical world in such incredible detail, that if you are a reader, and even more if you are...more
6.9.07
Nausea is not a good thing to have as the only thing that belongs to you, and even worse as the only thing that you belong to. It is sickening and dark and so terribly everyday that it gets inside you if you let it. Sartre writes beautifully and describes the physical world in such incredible detail, that if you are a reader, and even more if you are...more
Jean-Paul Sartre's version of "Rebel Without a Cause" and like James Dean, Sartre himself became an icon. Written in the late 30's, Sartre's study of a man who analyze his feelings, bearings on a world that makes him sick. This book has so much identity to it, that it is almost a brand name for 'youth.' There is nothing better then to be caught reading this novel by a pretty girl in a coffee house. Unless it's Starbucks, and then it is just... pointless.
I have to admit that I read this book in the summer between finishing high school and starting college - a time when I felt sure everything I'd been taught was irrelevant. When I read Nausea, I thought and acted like I had discovered the holy grail! I told all my friends (all 3 of them) they HAD to read it. I fell in love with this book with the intensity only a young person in their late teens can. (Evidently not all young people feel this way. My best friend still blames me ruining her summer...more
"What counts in life is not the number of rare and exciting adventures he encounters, but the inner depth in that life."---Hayden Carruth, From the book's Introduction
The psychological sojourn of the human mind in a state of undefined anxiety is what Jean-Paul Sartre puts to life in Nausea as it becomes his basis of inspiration to form a narrative style that encapsulates the formless thoughts into the ephemeral world of the physical as the unseen becomes visible in its convoluted form, showing...more
Apr 06, 2007
Alicia
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Those with patience and interest in existentialism
Shelves:
philosophy
This was a tedious read, and though a short novel, it took me a couple of months on and off to get through it. Sartre sets out to illustrate/explore existentialism in the narrative form. I liked his similar attempt in the play "The Flies" better, as it had a lot more humor and story going on. If you liked Nadja by Andre Breton, you might be insane but you will probably like the writing style of this novel also. I sometimes wondered if the novel flows better or is more poetic in its native French...more
Jan 17, 2008
jack
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who loves the smiths, anyone over the age of 18
i found this book at a salvation army when i was 17, i had no idea who sartre was, i just liked the description on the back and it sounded really depressing which i was into at the time. i kept trying to read it for the next five years but could never get past the first ten pages or so because it would just bum me out too much.
i finally read it when i had just graduated from college. i'm glad that i waited that long because i don't think i would have gotten the joke until then. in much the same...more
i finally read it when i had just graduated from college. i'm glad that i waited that long because i don't think i would have gotten the joke until then. in much the same...more
Sono sempre intenta a scovare un equivalente musicale alle mie letture, ma questa volta Sartre mi ha facilitato il compito. Il suo Roquentin è infatti stregato da questo ragtime anni ’20: ”Some of these days” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_0ldg.... Sono quasi sicura che sia questo. Il pezzo è lui. Roquentin parla di una cantante negra. Sophie Tucker è bianca, la sua voce, sebbene a volte bluesy, non esprime la solita potenza delle più note vocalità blues.
“Tra un momento ci sarà il ritornello:...more
“Tra un momento ci sarà il ritornello:...more
Aug 28, 2007
Lilias
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
observant loners
Shelves:
fiction
I am surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. Full of wit and perfect attention to detail, the narrative chronicles Antoine's thoughts through his diary entries. The only criticism I have of the book is actually also a compliment, which is that the writing so accurately reflects a person's thoughts that the book becomes just as redundant as our thoughts tend to be (...or maybe just my thoughts, hm?). Thus the reading becomes a bit tedious, and that is what stops me, perhaps unfairly, from givi...more
If you live in Florida, lets say Ft. Lauderdale, don't read this book... especially when you're trying to pay the bills by working in a call center and you're aweful at telemarketing and you're roommate is weird and depressed and everyone around you is fake and plastic. That's my only warning. Otherwise, it's a great book.
This book is pretty damn good. I think you really need to relish this book like a good cheeseburger..Eat slowly; savour each bite and let it go straight to the heart.... That was a really dumb thing I said right there....Anyways, I feel I can read a few pages and spend the next day or two thinking about them...This is among other productive things I spend my time thinking about, like for instance, weird ways I could die...
I feel there are some definite influences from Louis Ferdinand Celine in S...more
I feel there are some definite influences from Louis Ferdinand Celine in S...more
Okay, wow. They should stock this thing in the bible section. Or the adult erotica section, because either way it gives you some pretty intense experiences.
In a nutshell: this book is kind of like an existentialist essay in the form of a diary. It's about this red-haired writer guy Antoine Roquentin, who's recently been overwhelmed with an intolerable awareness of his own existence. Like, super intolerable. Like, a soul-crushing, mind-blowing, nausea-inducing kind of intolerable. It's pretty awe...more
In a nutshell: this book is kind of like an existentialist essay in the form of a diary. It's about this red-haired writer guy Antoine Roquentin, who's recently been overwhelmed with an intolerable awareness of his own existence. Like, super intolerable. Like, a soul-crushing, mind-blowing, nausea-inducing kind of intolerable. It's pretty awe...more
Apr 14, 2007
Daniel
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Anyone sick of the mundane
Shelves:
oldfavorites
After reading accounts of Sartre's highly unpleasant experiences with the then-infant compound LSD, this book made more sense on the whole, though taken as an independent perspective of one man's interior world (and a fictional world at that, severed from the corresponding reality of the author) I found it illuminating and full of abstract though vivid imagery. I read it in conjunction with a class on Existentialism while living in Copenhagen, so the atmosphere provided certain nuances to the ex...more
Existential angst is finally given a name; Nausea. It comes to those out of nowhere, and grips you in your entirety (like 'the fog' in Bouville perhaps), and then dissipates as quickly as it came. It comes to those who know the answer is not 42, but the square root of minus one (my apologies to Douglas Adams).
Taking the form of a diary, the book allows you to enter into the depths of a man's (Sartre's?) mind. Unedited and uncensored, the protagonist is quite in touch with his subconscious (Freud...more
Taking the form of a diary, the book allows you to enter into the depths of a man's (Sartre's?) mind. Unedited and uncensored, the protagonist is quite in touch with his subconscious (Freud...more
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هر لحظه را وارسی می کنم, می کوشم تا رمقش را بکشم; هیچ چیز نیست که بگذرد و نگیرمش و
برای همیشه در خودم نگهش ندارم,هیچ چیز, نه لطافت گذرنده ی این چشمهای زیبا, نه همهمه خیابان, نه روشنایی کاذب سحر:و با این حال دقیقه سپری می شود و من نگهش نمی دارم, دوست دارم که بگذرد.
و بعد ناگهان چیزی یکباره می شکند...ماجرا به پایان رسیده است, زمان جریان شل روزانه اش را از سر می گیرد.
سر می گردانم:پشت سرم, آن صورت زیبا و خوش آهنگ یکسره در گذشته فرو می رود.کوچک می شود, هنگام افول خود چروکیده می شود و حالا آغاز با پا...more
برای همیشه در خودم نگهش ندارم,هیچ چیز, نه لطافت گذرنده ی این چشمهای زیبا, نه همهمه خیابان, نه روشنایی کاذب سحر:و با این حال دقیقه سپری می شود و من نگهش نمی دارم, دوست دارم که بگذرد.
و بعد ناگهان چیزی یکباره می شکند...ماجرا به پایان رسیده است, زمان جریان شل روزانه اش را از سر می گیرد.
سر می گردانم:پشت سرم, آن صورت زیبا و خوش آهنگ یکسره در گذشته فرو می رود.کوچک می شود, هنگام افول خود چروکیده می شود و حالا آغاز با پا...more
انتوان روکانتن قهرمان رمان تهوع تک وتنها در شهر بوویل زندگی می کند.هر چند دست اندر در کار پﮊوهشی تاریخی است باری دل مشغولی عمده اش "وجود" است.وجودی که او به آن می اندیشد وجود در سا حت این جهانی و جلوه گر در موقعیتهای اجتماعی فرد آدمی و روابط وی با افراد دیگر جامعه است.دو چیز روکانتن را می آزارد: یکی آنکه این وجود در ذرات خود نا واجب و نا عقلانی است و دیگر آنکه پیرامون او را جماعتی "رجاله" با احساساتی دروغین و اندیشه های کلیشه ای فرا گرفته اند.برخورد با این وجود نا عقلانی در انبوه جزئیات مبتذلش گ...more
If I could sum this book up in one word: painful. In two words: painful and tedious. In several hundred words:
As my first exposure to Sartre’s thoughts on existence, Nausea is an effective demonstration of how the novel can lead the reader to examine the surrounding world in a different way. Sartre’s observations can lead you to recognize previously unsettling notions and feelings within reality.
As the lead character, Antoine Roquentin laboriously records his every thought in his journal (which...more
As my first exposure to Sartre’s thoughts on existence, Nausea is an effective demonstration of how the novel can lead the reader to examine the surrounding world in a different way. Sartre’s observations can lead you to recognize previously unsettling notions and feelings within reality.
As the lead character, Antoine Roquentin laboriously records his every thought in his journal (which...more
Now here is a story about a really pathetic character, Antoine Roquentin, absolutely paralyzed and nauseated by his intellectual power and gravitas. My diagnosis: he played too much, then thought too much, then was too tired to take courageous steps in the best direction he knew. It was the epitome of the tension between thought and action illuminated by Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s famous line, “Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.” I think it’s interesting that in Antoine’...more
The classic Existentialist novel, with a new introduction by renowned poet, translator, and critic Richard Howard.Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, La Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unques
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I don't consider La Nausée to be a masterpiece like some of the other prose or theatre works I've read by Jean-Paul Sartre. It is still a very thoughtful and provocative work though. I read this work in English about 20 years ago & the second time around, I guess somewhat more inured, I didn't find it to be as nearly revolting or powerful. I found that stylistically Sartre had not yet fully developed himself, although there are passages here and there which definitely herald the flawless pow...more
"I was just thinking," I tell him, laughing, "that here we sit, all of us, eating and drinking to
preserve our precious existence and really there is nothing, nothing, absolutely no reason for existing." This is where I struggled. Because now it became official. I had to choose whether to close the book or continue reading it in boredom and hatred. Yes, this book is an existentialist introduction book for the beginners.
The part of the book that I just couldn't stand was the part where he stabbed...more
preserve our precious existence and really there is nothing, nothing, absolutely no reason for existing." This is where I struggled. Because now it became official. I had to choose whether to close the book or continue reading it in boredom and hatred. Yes, this book is an existentialist introduction book for the beginners.
The part of the book that I just couldn't stand was the part where he stabbed...more
Neizkoriščeno nebo
Samo Sartre lahko napiše besedne zveze kot so: “neizkoriščeno nebo” (str. 109) ali pa “Sreda. Ne smeš se bati. Četrtek. Napisal štiri strani. potem dolg trenutek sreče. Ne premišljevati o vrednosti zgodovine. Izpostavljaš se nevarnosti, da se ti bo zagabila”. (str.109) Meni se sicer ni. Čutim to knjigo in vdihavam vsako besedo te knjige: “Umazana ledena senca” (str. 110), “mlačne kože” (str. 114), “modrikasto pero” (str. 110), “ženska z voščeno poltjo” (str. 110), “blatne zvezd...more
Samo Sartre lahko napiše besedne zveze kot so: “neizkoriščeno nebo” (str. 109) ali pa “Sreda. Ne smeš se bati. Četrtek. Napisal štiri strani. potem dolg trenutek sreče. Ne premišljevati o vrednosti zgodovine. Izpostavljaš se nevarnosti, da se ti bo zagabila”. (str.109) Meni se sicer ni. Čutim to knjigo in vdihavam vsako besedo te knjige: “Umazana ledena senca” (str. 110), “mlačne kože” (str. 114), “modrikasto pero” (str. 110), “ženska z voščeno poltjo” (str. 110), “blatne zvezd...more
La nausée c’est un autre mot pour le spleen baudelairien, un étrange désespoir et malaise face à l’existence, une « crise existentielle » qui oscille entre dégoût, folie, conscience profonde de soi et tentation de nihilisme, entre pulsion de mort et urgence d’exister.
Présenté sous la forme d’un journal fictif, La nausée est un récit hautement intimiste entièrement tourné vers le ressenti, les perceptions et les sensations de son narrateur, Antoine Roquentin, un historien de 30 ans, de retour de...more
Présenté sous la forme d’un journal fictif, La nausée est un récit hautement intimiste entièrement tourné vers le ressenti, les perceptions et les sensations de son narrateur, Antoine Roquentin, un historien de 30 ans, de retour de...more
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الجزء الأوّل من الكتاب مملّ , لكنّه ربما كان ضروريا لتدخل في فضاء العبثيّة و المعنى الحقيقيّ لهذه الأجساد المتحرّكة على أرض التفاهة , في الجزء الأوّل يقترب أطوان من المرآة و يصف ما يراه , مشهد مقلق , هذا كان بداية الشعور بالكينونة ...
في الجزء الآخر يتدفّق سارتر , و يبدأ العرض , كساحر يجيد فنّه , العبثيّة , الكينوينة , اللحظات الكاملة , الغثيان , الإنسان ... مربك و صادم , ولو عدت إلى وقته كأوّل كتاب لسارتر , و أوّل كتاب يطرح مفاهيمه , فبإمكانك تخيّل مدى ما كانت هذه الحصاة قد أحدثت في واحة الثقافة...more
في الجزء الآخر يتدفّق سارتر , و يبدأ العرض , كساحر يجيد فنّه , العبثيّة , الكينوينة , اللحظات الكاملة , الغثيان , الإنسان ... مربك و صادم , ولو عدت إلى وقته كأوّل كتاب لسارتر , و أوّل كتاب يطرح مفاهيمه , فبإمكانك تخيّل مدى ما كانت هذه الحصاة قد أحدثت في واحة الثقافة...more
عندما كتب ساتر روايته الاولى التي اشتهرت تحت عنوان «الغثيان»، وكان قد اسماها في البداية «تأملات في الصدفة»، عرضها على رفيقة حياته سيمون دوبوفوار، التي وجدتها مملة ولا تتضمن عنصر التشويق، أعاد سارتر صياغتها قبل ارسالها الى الناشر
الفرنسي «غاليمار»، لكن لجنة القراءة رفضتها واعتبرتها غير ذات شأن.
مما أصابه بالإحباط الشديد والاكتئاب
الا أنه قرر التصرف بشكل عملي هذه المرة ملتمسا من صديقه، شارل دولان، التوسط لدى الناشر، غاستون غاليمار. واقترح الناشر تعديلات وتغييرا للعنوان إلى «الغثيان».
وهكذا ظهرت للوجو...more
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Sartre
Few can carry the adjective multifaceted as adequately as the Frenchman Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980). One of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century, Sartre was a philosopher, playwright, writer and activist who believed in the active role of th...more
"Existence is not something conceived by far: it has to invade us suddenly, it has to hold on us, weigh heavily on our hearts as a large animal stopped - otherwise there is absolutely nothing"
Sartre
Few can carry the adjective multifaceted as adequately as the Frenchman Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980). One of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century, Sartre was a philosopher, playwright, writer and activist who believed in the active role of th...more
Na koricama bi trebalo stajati - HE WHO ENTERS ABANDON ALL HOPE. Ništa brutalnije u životu još nisam pročitao. Sartreov (anti)junak je stvorenje (ne znam da li je to uopće čovjek) koje postoji, i to je sve. Ne znam koju drugu osobinu bih mu pripisao. Bez prošlosti, bez budućnosti, a u sadašnjosti - pukim postojanjem. Ono što resi glavnog lika je nevjerojatna iskrenost prema sebi, od kuda i dolaze napadi mučnine, jer ono što si priznaje je jednostavno previše za prihvatiti i uopće pojmiti.
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An insufferable philosophical classic, penned in nauseating and styleless first person prose. Roquentin is an arrogant buffoon whose existential woes are trivial, arch and pathetic. No attempt to create a novel has been made, apart from using that most lazy of constructs, the diary, opening the whole work out to a meandering thought-stream of excruciating random dullness. It isn’t accessible to confused students, unless those students happen to be aesthetes on private incomes writing dull histor...more
I figured I should read something good ‘n’ depressing to prepare myself for the oncoming darkness and cold of the winter months – and Nausea just had a nice ring to it I guess. This is my second time reading the book – the first time my understanding of existentialism wasn’t so great – and I thought it would be fun to revisit it now that I am have a better understanding of existentialism’s principles.
At its simplest, Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin coming to terms with the fact that li...more
At its simplest, Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin coming to terms with the fact that li...more
Sartre is known for his works' contributions to existentialist thought. Perhaps the most profound of these, I think, is Nausea. Existentialists see life as fundamentally challenging and nauseating. It's all about getting past the inherent meaninglessness of life to create individuated, existential meaning. You're defined constantly by your actions, not your "inherent" disposition or "pre-given" place. Nausea represents the first part of that struggle, wherein the protagonist Antoine is horrified...more
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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy.
He declined the award of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has ex...more
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