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  <title><![CDATA[Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;B&gt;Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature.&lt;/B&gt; 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, &lt;I&gt;Le Naus&#233;e&lt;/I&gt; (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unquestionably a key novel of the Twentieth Century and a landmark in Existentialist fiction.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;I&gt;Nausea&lt;/I&gt; 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 &quot;spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of &lt;I&gt;our&lt;/I&gt; time&amp;#151;the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain.&quot; Roquentin's efforts to come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tents of his Existentialist creed.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; The introduction for this edition of &lt;I&gt;Nausea&lt;/I&gt; 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.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jean-Paul Sartre]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's 3:15 AM, early Saturday morning, as I begin my review.  Am I ethically obligated to admit that I am loitering on the far-side of tipsy -- which is down the road a spell and over two or three blocks from officially Blubbering &amp; Shit-Faced? <br/><br/>This, my friends and enemies (and frenemies)...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34590325">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[someone who is more emotional stable than me.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 28 16:37:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 09 11:29:26 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I put a longer review of this book / a journal entry that I wrote while I was reading it in &quot;my writing&quot; since it was too long for this page.<br/><br/>6.9.07<br/>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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1500221">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16759655">
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 01 07:34:36 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jean-Paul Sartre's version of  &quot;Rebel Without a Cause&quot; 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 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16759655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12409283">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jan 17 13:20:36 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12409283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="399633">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Those with patience and interest in existentialism]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 &quot;The Flies&quot; better, as it had a lot more humor and story going ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/399633">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5081421">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[observant loners]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Aug 28 22:02:03 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 thoug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5081421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="718883">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone sick of the mundane]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/718883">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[هر لحظه را وارسی می کنم, می کوشم تا رمقش را بکشم; هیچ چیز نیست که بگذرد و نگیرمش و <br/><br/>برای همیشه در خودم نگهش ندارم,هیچ چیز, نه لطافت گذرنده ی این چشمهای زیبا, نه همهم...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69947187">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 &quot;وجود&quot; است.وجودی که او به آن می ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69946815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49262341">
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    <body><![CDATA[If I could sum this book up in one word: painful. In two words: painful and tedious. In several hundred words:<br/><br/>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 differen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49262341">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69946064">
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 03 12:17:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[لحظات کامل <br/><br/>&quot;....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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69946064">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67581635">
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    <body><![CDATA[»Ne gre, nikamor ne gre: čutim to umazanijo, ta Gnus.«<br/><br/>»Zelo rad pobiram kostanj, stare krpe, posebno pa papir. Občutim ugodje, ko jih prijemam, ko jih stiskam v roki; prav ima me, da bi jih nesel k ustom, kakor to delajo otroci. Anny je bila vsa besna, ko sem vzdigoval težke in ču...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67581635">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61871742">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57671469">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57671469">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56687667">
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    <body><![CDATA[Nausea is a funny book in some ways. All the stuff about perfect moments and adventure is really interesting - there is an ideal image of life which we would all like our own lives to conform to but they never do, in fact it is impossible (from the point of view of Roquentin) - but there are times w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56687667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title says it all: Existence is nauseating if you insist it is pointless. I dislike Sartre. He had it all  backwards (&quot;existence precedes essence&quot;) though I didn't know it to that extent at the time. I just knew he was another self-absorbed hypocrite. Wikipedia: &quot;As a fellow-trave...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68635546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[what a letdown after Camus and Hesse.<br/>I did like the book, well some parts of it- around 70 pages, but it lacks when it comes to writing style. it's nothing like Kafka, Camus or Hesse, it's existentialistic alright, it has bits of philosophy that I found every interesting but the rest is just mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58428849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was my early teen introduction to existentialism along with a few other works.  It is a formidable effort and placing one's existence where it should be, by rights.  In learning to understand oneself, one learns not only how to examine those qualities which we accept as reasonable and corr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55400854">more...</a>]]></body>
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