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Loading... Nausea (1938)by Jean-Paul Sartre
Why is anyone I can even remotely relate to in books mentally ill? It's ridiculous. (  )  Anoplophora | Apr 19, 2013 |  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, indulgent, embarrassing excercise in self-pity. (kids: for best effect, play Pink Floyd's "The Wall" while reading!) (  )1  BirdBrian | Apr 7, 2013 | Nausea is brilliant, but I have a hard time being viscerally repulsed by trees. Sorry M. Roquentin. (  ) raschneid | Mar 31, 2013 | Nausea: The Self-Taught Man (L’autodidact) is reading all the books in a library alphabetically. He is observed by Antoinne Roquetin, who is undertaking research. Roquetin observes him molesting a young boy. (  ) TonySandel2 | Feb 11, 2013 | “You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.” evforija | Aug 25, 2012 |
Sartre's name, I understand, is associated with a fashionable brand of cafe philosophy and since for every so-called "existentialist" one finds quite a few "suctorialists" (if I may coin a polite term), this made-in- England translation of Sartre's first novel, "La Nausée" (published in Paris in 1938) should enjoy some success. It is hard to imagine except in a farce) a dentist persistently pulling out the wrong tooth. Publishers and translators, however, seem to get away with something of that sort. Lack of space limits me to only these examples of Mr. Alexander's blunders.
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0811217000, Paperback)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 unquestionably a key novel of the twentieth century and a landmark in Existentialist fiction.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. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spreads 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 come to terms with life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:47:08 -0500) French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats. Roquentin's efforts to come to terms with life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed.… (more) |
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