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"Something has happened to me, I can't doubt it any more. It came as an illness does, not like an ordinary certainty, not like anything evident. It came cunningly, little by little; I felt a little strange, a little put out, that's all. Once established it never moved, it stayed quiet, and I was able to persuade myself that nothing was the matter with me, that it was a false alarm. And now, it's blossoming...
A little while ago, just as I was coming into my room, I stopped short because I felt i ...more
A little while ago, just as I was coming into my room, I stopped short because I felt i ...more
There are little nuggets of real insight in Nausea that I really connected with; the feeling of being surrounded by cardboard scenery, hands like cold, white fish. But these nugs seem to be wrapped in an opaque early 20th century French-ness that was lost on me. There's a strange scene involving spanking a man with a hole in his face until he bled, and then drawing a face of Deroulede on his butt. Then there's the (otherwise fascinating) scene later on when the Self Taught Man confesses to being
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