/lit/ - Literature

I read half this book a few years back. I put it down for some reason but am thinking of reading it again. Is it like the stranger, where it has a profound philosophical message at the end that the book leads up to? Or is the second half more of the first half, just some guy walking around the town doing mundane things? Convince me to read it or not to without giving away the end.

>>8975182
This. Also buy her some sturdy rope.

Book: Satre - Nausea, Album: The Marshall Mathers LP
Thes are my todays favorites. It changes often..

>>7429602
No. This is.

ITT:
Books to help you of of mind-numbing depression and soul-crushing apathy.
Will pic related help?

>>7363630
I started with Nausea and it was awesome.

>>7358689
>fun
Pic related. I hate myself and existence makes me sick.

Opinions about this book? I think It has some wonderful passages but in most parts it's boring.
In the dialogue between Antonin and Self-Taught Man, I realized I hated both characters, they both are wrong believing themselves masters of truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre appreciation thread.

I cannot believe that his book Nause left me contemplating existence, and even depressed for a short while. Very strong evidence of the logical argumentation that there is nothing more to life than we make out of it, he states:

"The essential thing is contingency. I mean that one cannot define existence as necessity. To exist is simply to be there; those who exist let themselves be encountered, but you can never deduce anything from them. I believe there are people who have understood this. Only they tried to overcome this contingency by inventing a necessary, causal being. But no necessary being can explain existence: contingency is not a delusion, a probability which can be dissipated; it is the absolute, consequently, the perfect free gift. All is free, this park, this city and myself. When you realize that, it turns your heart upside down and everything begins to float, as the other evening at the "Railwaymen's Rendezvous": here is Nausea; here there is what those bastardsùthe ones on the Coteau Vert and othersùtry to hide from themselves with their idea of their rights. But what a poor lie: no one has any rights; they are entirely free, like other men, they cannot succeed in not feeling superfluous. And in themselves, secretly, they are superfluous, that is to say, amorphous, vague, and sad."

Any other good reads related to this literature?

I finished it a couple of hours ago, left with a very favorable impression. Certainly some parts were filled with edgy teen-angst over 'muh superfluous existence' but I thought this was part of the gradual process of Antoine finding some meaning in life, namely in perpetuating his existence.

Anyway, my question is why does there seem to be so much hatred for Jean-Paul Sartre on /lit/?

I've just read Nausea, it was very thought provoking. I'm looking for more existentialist literature, does /lit/ have any suggestions?

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We post and discuss the books we are currently reading, preferably giving a link to the pdf of the book you're reading.

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