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Nausea (1938)

by Jean-Paul Sartre

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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.… (more)
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    Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (trillkhidr)
    trillkhidr: Perhaps an obvious connection, but one that I nevertheless could not fail to return to again and again throughout my reading of Nausea. Is Antoine a man underground?
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    The Stranger by Albert Camus (roby72, kjuliff)
    kjuliff: Existentialism
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    The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke (roby72)
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    The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (kaityjames)
    kaityjames: Huxley views art as a pale imitation of objects as they ARE; Sartre finds existence disgusting and obscene, and art as a beautiful form above and beyond reality. Definitely compatible if you can dig Sartre's dark, existential language.
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    SamuelW: Although The Remains of the Day has none of Nausea's philosophical depth, there are close similarities in theme, plot and technique which make the two books a remarkable pair.
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    Dead Certainties : Unwarranted Speculations by Simon Schama (Sea92)
    Sea92: Nausea is more of a philosophical work, but both authors explore chasm between the reality of the past and history as it is written. These are issues that historians must deal with.
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    Side Effects by Woody Allen (kjuliff)
    kjuliff: Woody’s satire on Nausea
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glorified teenage angst ( )
  hk- | Apr 12, 2023 |
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.
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  womanwoanswers | Dec 23, 2022 |
Having studied some of Sartre's (purely) philosophical works, it's tempting to rate Nausea as a stand-in for one's interest in existentialism, rather than as the novel in-itself (to paraphrase the man in question).

Sartre's life was fascinating, and I find his philosophy profoundly insightful. Knowing, separately, how Nausea fits into all of that - I want to praise its importance and give it the due regard that "step #1" deserves on the road to "step #12".

But the truth is that the novel itself is dreadfully dull. Meandering and dense, with descriptive gems dotted throughout, but no air to let them breathe - its not a book I could honestly recommend to anyone who isn't wiling to at least watch a few YouTube philosophy lectures beforehand. Here: the philosophy may work, but the artform doesn't really. ( )
  sometimeunderwater | Sep 11, 2022 |
Why this book? Mentioned in Crossroads.
  Jinjer | Aug 12, 2022 |
  nagasravika.bodapati | Jul 19, 2022 |
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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.
added by John_Vaughan | editNY Times, VLADIMIR NABOKOV (Jun 2, 2012)
 
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Sartre, Jean-PaulAuthorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Aardweg, H.P. v.d.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Alexander, LloydTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Baldick, RobertTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bernárdez, AuroraTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bernárdez, AuroraTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Carp, E. A. D. E.Introductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Carruth, HaydenIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Caruso, PaoloContributorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Cosman, CarolTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Fonzi, BrunoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gourmelin, JeanCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Koeva, MariaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mañas, José ÁngelForewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mannerkorpi, JuhaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Canonical title
Nausea
Original title
La nausée
Alternative titles
Original publication date
1938 (original French)
1959 (English: Alexander)
People/Characters
Antoine Roquentin
Ogier P. (The Self-Taught Man)
Anny
Adolphe
Aunt Bigeois
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Bouville, Normandy, France (based on Le Havre)
Paris, France
France
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Epigraph
'He is a fellow without any collective significance, barely an individual.'
L. F. Céline, The Church
Dedication
TO THE BEAVER
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These notebooks were found among the papers of Antoine Roquentin. ("Editors' Note")
The best thing would be to write down events from day to day.
Quotations
"I live in the past. I take everything that has happened to me and arrange it. From a distance like that, it doesn't do any harm, you'd almost let yourself be caught in it. Our whole story is fairly beautiful. I give it a few prods and it makes a whole string of perfect moments. Then I close my eyes and try to imagine that I'm still living inside it."
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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.
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Dopo aver viaggiato a lungo, Antoine Roquentin si stabilisce a Bouville, in uno squallido albergo vicino alla stazione, per scrivere una tesi di dottorato in storia. La sera, si siede al tavolo di un bistrot ad ascoltare un disco, sempre lo stesso: Some of These Days. La sua vita ormai non ha piú senso: il passato è abitato da Anny, mentre il presente è sempre piú sommerso da una sensazione dolce e orribile, insinuante, che ha nome Nausea. Un romanzo trasgressivo e ricchissimo, sempre attuale, che ci restituisce il disagio del mondo in agonia alla vigilia della Seconda guerra mondiale. Il libro piú libero di Sartre, il piú disinteressato e il piú appassionato insieme. 
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843.914Literature › French › French fiction › Modern Period › 20th Century › 1945-1999

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