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2827244 No.2827244 [Reply] [Original]

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

>> No.2827250

Actually, he would later say that while we was writing that, he was incredibly happy. One of the happiest times in his life.

>> No.2827251

no one forces you to read boring, emo shit.

grow up.

>> No.2827252

I didn't think Nausea was really depressing.

>> No.2827262

dat small stone

>> No.2827264

>>2827251
What do you like to read?

>> No.2827267

>>2827264


Well I just read Steppenwolf a few days ago :(

But my previous post still stands!

>> No.2827273

>>2827267

>Steppenwolf

Is that what made you bitter against "boring emo shit".

I like nausea alot better, but I never finished Steppenwolf.

>> No.2827286

>>2827250
He probably said that simply to refute the mobs of people attacking him and his philosophy out of the mistaken impression that it was nihilistic (and depressing).
Let's face it though, the sort of shit he wrote about in Nausea can only come from a depressed man or one who has been very intimate with depression.

>> No.2827289

>>2827252
did you feel like much of his diary could be your own?

I do, and that why it gives me feels...

>> No.2827313

>>2827289

Yes. He felt his life/existence and the world around him devoid of any meaning. But I don't see it as depressing. His point (in the context of his wider existentialist philosophies) was that in the face of such Nothingness you can still - and should - do something positive with your time alive.

That was one problem with this book. It was published prior to any of his non-fiction works, and initially comes off as a cold, depressing and as someone said nihilistic work. However, as he explores in Existentialism Is A Humanism and Being And Nothingness, the opposite is the case, and that this form of thinking (in these existentialist terms) should be viewed as a positive one.

>> No.2827320

Then I read The Myth of Sisyphus, and everything was a lot better.

>> No.2827325

>>2827320
This.

>> No.2827331
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2827331

>>2827313
Maybe your interpretation of this book,and the intention of the author are correct. I wouldn't know, I havn't studied sartre, existentialism, or humanism.

That said Roquentin, at times, suffers a great deal trying to understand his self and situation. And his discriptions of his struggles, and especially his description of his introspections are vivid, they are vivid becuase they belong to me also.

>> No.2827331,1 [INTERNAL] 

>>2827331
Now that I think about it, "probably" is a gay word. Way too many B sounds in there. Clunky for the tongue.