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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. La náusea es la primera novela filosófica del filósofo francés Jean Paul Sartre. Es el resultado de todo el período de su formación, especialmente ligado a su estadía en Alemania (Maison Académique Française de Berlin: 1933-1934), a su discipulado de Edmund Husserl y de la escuela fenomenológica, y, al mismo tiempo, al estudio minucioso, que tanto influyó en él, de lo que hasta ese momento había publicado Martin Heidegger. The obsessiveness in Nausea is dull yet compelling. Unlike most ontological literature, your appreciation for it will depend on a lifetime habit of deflecting existential dread with a genuine preoccupation of the world around you; and, more importantly, on your final choice to cultivate your essence regardless.
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. Belongs to Publisher SeriesI coralli [Einaudi] (13) Delfinserien (113) — 18 more Gallimard, Folio (46-805) Grote ABC (243) Keltainen kirjasto (62) Keltainen pokkari (103) Penguin Modern Classics (2276) rororo (581) A tot vent (118) Uglebøkene (44) Zwarte Beertjes (434) Is contained inHas the adaptationHas as a studyHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs 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."Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre -- philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist -- holds a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. La Nausee, his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century. No library descriptions found.
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Consequences there were, though. The experience messed with my teenage mind, big time, in ways I didn't even realise until much later.
Today, I would recommend his trapped prisoners... oops readers, that they watch that delightful Netflix documentary on the benefits of MDMA for the treatment of PTSD and depression, and I'd call it a day.
This is a classic, and I don't claim to have the tools to give an informed review without a re-reading, which means that I'll probably break my promise to myself and drink the bitter cup. I matured a dislike for Sartre during the years, as I suspect him of a certain degree of autobiographic and intellectual dishonesty, and now I am curious to call myself to task in proving it, or be surprised.
I remember being suspicious of his black list of French intellectuals who were guilty of not fighting the nazi occupation of France.
If there is something I loath more than nazi occupations, it's black-listing intellectuals.
I also remember the bleak look on life that reading existentialists writers' novels infected my young mind with. Probably, the worst offender was my young, tendentially depressed mind, but I haven't forgiven Sartre, nor Simone de Beauvoir yet.
Yes, a re-read is in order. Wish me good luck.