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What does /lit/ think of La Nausée? (Nausea)

>>2963915

Seconded.

Basically, everything he said except for throwing up on a girl and stealing her medicine.

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FUCK YOU FOR BEING SUCH A DEPRESSING PIECE OF SHIT, JEAN-PAUL

Just finished it. I didn't like it at all, got really bored towards the end.

What are your thoughts about this book?

Nausea is about a guy who just can't catch a brake. It's a really good book, theres alot of themes explored in the book, like the modern condition, the impact of being force-fed existence and how plans never seem to work out.

The two lead characters Roquentin and the reader, really work well together, one suffers neurotically and psychotically, whilst the other suffers ironically.

I think its good to isolate the protagonist from his peers as the vacuum of the deuteragonist is filled by the reader's perspective, which add's a depth to the book

In conclusion, Nausia is about a guy whose down on his luck. I would reccommend it to any one whose single LOL!

I finished this a while back and I've been looking for books with a similar tone, but have always been coming short. I wouldn't say that this book was radical in a sense, but it did leave an impression on me. Could /lit/ point me in the direction of a few other books like this one?

7.253/10.

Didn't really get the point of 'existence precedes essence'. I thought most people nowadays were aware that things are more than their essence from physics/biology like we can only see so many colours/other animals don't use words to perceive things/might only see in shades, etc. Isn't that what he means?

And also that gay 'living in the moment/present' shit like Camus. No one really does that and why wouldn't the burden of it just cause Roquentin to give up his freedom again/find some other routine to live through eventually?

Did I not understand? you guys said this was entry-level :/ Should I read the Being and Nothingness/No Exit?

Existienientialist power rankings eg.
1. Stranger
2. Nausea
3. Either/Or
etc
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go!

ok i'm kind of bored of 'the absurd' ideas after re-reading the stranger, is this worth reading?

also the guy that recommended me myth of sisyphus, etc is fucking retarded. Catcher in the Rye is probably the best book i've read at this point in my life so whats good like that :3

I started reading Nausea before Winter Break, and while I'm only about 10 pages in, I can't bring myself to actually read the damn thing. Is it actually worth my time? I loved The Stranger/Exile and the Kingdom, and I know Sartre and Camus we're friends for a while.

Why was he so nauseous?

Read this yet?

i recently got on a temp job on which i had too much time at hand. i got around reading sartre's nausea two times over. what do u guys think about the book?

Name a book you didnt really understand, then you did a drug and totally got what the author was getting at.

Did to much extacy and the next day was still kinda f-ed up but my brain was pretty fried, and I totally got the Nausea Sartre was describing.