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Nausea
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist and dramatist, hold a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, Le Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It i...more
Paperback, 178 pages
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June 1st 1969
by New Directions Publishing
(first published 1938)
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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 rea...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 rea...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.
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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 nat...more
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 mu...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 mu...more
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 g...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 collection of short stories (which is mostly dominated by the longer Nausea) is a good introduction to Sartre's philosophically tinged fiction. I am a bit of a sucker for existentialist writings -- I find that they independently reflect many of my thoughts, views on life, and epiphanies. As much as we all enjoy the comfort of hearing our own thoughts and feelings echo throughout this massively complex cave of life, I found his writings to be often banal with occasional strokes of insight.
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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
Awww, cheer up, Sartre! Things can't be that bad, can they? This book is FANTASTIC if you are an angst-ridden teenager, sitting at home on a Friday night, stewing about all the people who don't "get" you, wondering why she goes out with those dumb jocks (can't she see what a sensitive guy you are?), contemplating what your bedroom would look like if only your parents would let you paint it black (with a black rug)...
Fast forward 25 years, and the book looks like a bitter, indul...more
Fast forward 25 years, and the book looks like a bitter, indul...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,...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,...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 ا...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 though...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 though...more
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"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 activi...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 activi...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 ...more
At its simplest, Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin coming to terms with the ...more
Per me, semplicemente, un capolavoro; forse perché mi consuona (ho sempre detto che preferisco l'esistere all'essere), forse per il periodo in cui l'ho letto, più probabilmente perché lo è.
Certo non è un libro leggero, o facile, di quelli che si leggono in due ore e vanno bene in qualsiasi momento. Sartre ci fa anche faticare, ci trascina dietro il velo dell'esistente a cercare di capire l'Esistenza. Ci guida con ironia tra le miserie di una vita che non è brutta, se non in quanto vita. E, come ...more
Certo non è un libro leggero, o facile, di quelli che si leggono in due ore e vanno bene in qualsiasi momento. Sartre ci fa anche faticare, ci trascina dietro il velo dell'esistente a cercare di capire l'Esistenza. Ci guida con ironia tra le miserie di una vita che non è brutta, se non in quanto vita. E, come ...more
Ah existentialism, you tricky concept! As I understand it:
Existentialism = existence precedes essence = human beings have the freedom to do whatever they want in order to create their own essence or purpose = massive responsibility for your actions = anxiousness = EITHER denying the responisbility and in turn the freedom, OR becoming inspired by endless possibilities.
Nausea is pretty much a fictional version of Existentialism and Humanism, but without obvious theory. It t...more
Existentialism = existence precedes essence = human beings have the freedom to do whatever they want in order to create their own essence or purpose = massive responsibility for your actions = anxiousness = EITHER denying the responisbility and in turn the freedom, OR becoming inspired by endless possibilities.
Nausea is pretty much a fictional version of Existentialism and Humanism, but without obvious theory. It t...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 protago...more
Let me give this difficult book a try.
Antoine Roquentin, the existential hero here, writes a diary where he records his attempts to explain what has brought him to his present despair. Or Nausea, with a capital M. To convince himself and his readers that this is real, he mentions anecdotes, stories and other characters he had experienced and encountered. I was myself beginning to despair, as some of his passages are really difficult and had dragged my mind into the void where it coul...more
Antoine Roquentin, the existential hero here, writes a diary where he records his attempts to explain what has brought him to his present despair. Or Nausea, with a capital M. To convince himself and his readers that this is real, he mentions anecdotes, stories and other characters he had experienced and encountered. I was myself beginning to despair, as some of his passages are really difficult and had dragged my mind into the void where it coul...more
Even though I'm intrigued by existentialism, I am still struggling to understand what Sartre is trying to tell us in Nausea. The main character, (he finds other humans boring, petty, phony....), makes a choice to stand away from the rest of humanity. He is a critical observer, the constant cynic. So much easier to stand at a distance and criticize to feel the Nausea that is humanity. The nausea is only one side of the coin, because not all in life is despicable, crass and disgusting, He has chos...more
Worthwhile because someone finally bothered to write explicitly about what has been dubbed “Nausea” for the mere sake of naming the unnameable. Existentialism was just begging to be invented by someone and was desperately needed, I would argue that not only Kierkegaard beat everyone else to it, his version is even better and more conclusive and more descriptive of the human state. Existentialism is the western philosophy to end all western philosophy, existence is the only thing that we can firm...more
i am not a philosopher. words without pictures mean nothing to me. i once read Being and Nothingness. it was like eating a piece of wood. i ate the whole thing and then when i was done, i didn't even feel sick. i just felt like my teeth were about to fall out.
anyway, this book is different. i heard once that in his later days sartre disavowed all his earlier beliefs, his atheism, and became a catholic and believed very much in God. at the time i thought that was bizarre and funny, bu...more
anyway, this book is different. i heard once that in his later days sartre disavowed all his earlier beliefs, his atheism, and became a catholic and believed very much in God. at the time i thought that was bizarre and funny, bu...more
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"....داستانی هست که وقتی مدرسه می رفتم سخت درم اثر گذاشت.پادشاهی بود که در جنگی شکست خورده و اسیر شده بود.او آنجا, در کنج اردوی فاتح بود.پسر ودخترش را دید که به زنجیر کشیده از جلویش می گذرند.گریه نکرد, چزی نگفت.بعد از آنها یکی از خدمتکارانش را دید که می گذرد, او هم به زنجیر کشیده شده بود.پس بنای نالیدن و مو کندن گذاشت.......می بینی:زمان هایی هست که آدم نباید گریه کند_وگرنه ناپاک می شود.ولی اگر کنده چوبی روی پایش بیفتد, می تواند هر چه دلش می خواهد بکند, آه و ناله سر ده...more
"....داستانی هست که وقتی مدرسه می رفتم سخت درم اثر گذاشت.پادشاهی بود که در جنگی شکست خورده و اسیر شده بود.او آنجا, در کنج اردوی فاتح بود.پسر ودخترش را دید که به زنجیر کشیده از جلویش می گذرند.گریه نکرد, چزی نگفت.بعد از آنها یکی از خدمتکارانش را دید که می گذرد, او هم به زنجیر کشیده شده بود.پس بنای نالیدن و مو کندن گذاشت.......می بینی:زمان هایی هست که آدم نباید گریه کند_وگرنه ناپاک می شود.ولی اگر کنده چوبی روی پایش بیفتد, می تواند هر چه دلش می خواهد بکند, آه و ناله سر ده...more
I decided it was time to reread one of my favorite books. I love this book like I love The Descendents and Husker Du. It's both brilliant and somehow embarassing. A must-read for angsty teenage boys, I now read Sartre's first novel as great both for its dramatization of existentialist philosophy and for its naively masculine, self-centered, and overly ambitious attempt to describe the experience of existence as it really is. Somehow, this seems like a thought that you can only ponder while s...more
Some might find this a tough read in places. It’s often monotonous, but that monotony is the cornerstone of the entire novel. It sets a tone that enhances the novel’s themes and in its own way tells us a lot about the nature of the central character.
The story is written in the form of a diary and follows Antoine Roquentin, a young writer living in a small city in France.
Very little is revealed about Antoine’s past. We only know him to be a solitary scholar and a seasoned tr...more
The story is written in the form of a diary and follows Antoine Roquentin, a young writer living in a small city in France.
Very little is revealed about Antoine’s past. We only know him to be a solitary scholar and a seasoned tr...more
An ode to the naked, empty estrangement which characterises our modern condition, Nausea is grippingly relevant in 2009. It drags us to the realisation of our absolute freedom and responsibility we have for inventing our own purpose for existence. Distilling his philosphy into the form of the novel allows Sartre to merge his ideas into the creative medium, and reach a broader audience.
The subject matter is handled delicately. Roquentin is likeable as a narrator, even if one doubts hi...more
The subject matter is handled delicately. Roquentin is likeable as a narrator, even if one doubts hi...more
I am reading this book for the second time. The last time was while I was working on my M.A. in literature.
The first forty pages brought to mind an incident in my life when I went white water rafting on the Rouge River in Canada. It was springtime and the river was raging from melted snow. We reached a spot in the river known as the Drano. The river narrowed through high cliff walls. The leaders told the boats to pull to shore because it was too rough. My boat didn't make it, and all ...more
The first forty pages brought to mind an incident in my life when I went white water rafting on the Rouge River in Canada. It was springtime and the river was raging from melted snow. We reached a spot in the river known as the Drano. The river narrowed through high cliff walls. The leaders told the boats to pull to shore because it was too rough. My boat didn't make it, and all ...more
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So, this book reminded me my existencialist wave when I was about seventeen? I mean, some of the thoughts the main character had. Some I still have, but I'm not depressive. I mean, yeah, life can suck if you choose to look at it that way. I don't believe there's any particular purpose, but that you have to look for it, to basically enjoy life and be happy doing the things you want (not in a carpe diem sort of way... or maybe yes, if that's what you want, but I don't think that's the best option ...more
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