georgewhatup reviewed Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (A New Directions Paperbook)
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4 stars
I too like to talk philosophy when I'm avoiding my emotions.
178 pages
English language
Published Nov. 6, 1964 by New Directions.
4 stars
(47 reviews)
A fascinating existentialist novel, written in the form of a journal, about a historian who moves to a small port in northern France to research a biography he is intending to write. Whilst there his senses become dulled and he becomes increasingly disgusted by his own existence, finding no solace with friends or a woman he begins an affair with.
Moorlock reviewed Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (A New Directions Paperbook)
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4 stars
What if the Buddha, instead of leaving his comfortable life to earnestly seek the truths of thusness and no-self, had instead been bitten by those truths as if by a venomous spider while he was still living his princely life. And what if, instead of then feeling the bliss of awakening and a union with the All, he was instead stricken by a horrific nausea and a panic that the All was penetrating, violating, and dismembering him.
Well, then, the Buddha would be Antoine Roquentin and Buddhism would be the anguished nostalgia for samsara.
Curtis reviewed Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (A New Directions Paperbook)
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Oddly enough, I never finished Nausea. I just got sick of it.
