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 Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
Newest Review: ... is a writer attempting to pen the biography of Monsieur de Rollebon, an important character in the political scene of France. ... more  ... Roquentin narrates the events in his life as if writing his feelings in a diary. His feelings about the pointlessness of his work is the first noticable existentialist leaning.
Our hero spends his time mulling around feeling bored and questioning why reality exists. When he suffers social isolation and yearns for a personal relationship that never materialises - his introspection increases. He muses on the nature of man and the absurdity of the physical situations in which we live. At one point in the novel he stops...more |
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Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre: The Thinking Sickness (516 words)
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Jean-Paul Sartre was a philosopher and is known as the founder of French Existentialism. This school of thought, or the existential idea, deals with the whys and hows of human existence and focuses on the sense of confusion that we feel for being sentient beings in an absurd, meaningless world. In so many words! In Sartre's formal lectures and his academic books he meditates on the themes of boredom, the absurd, faith, freedom and nothingness and explains how these relate to the existential mode of thought. In this celebrated and crucial 1938 novel 'Nausea' these themes are woven into the fictional story of Antoine Roquentin, who is the exisitentialist ... Read the complete review
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