I was originally going to read this book when I was in Paris, however I had only just finished reading a collection of Satre's plays and there were a couple of other books that had caught my attention beforehand (such as [author:Hemmingway]), so I decided to put it down for a while. Mind you, consid...
This novel is basically a fictional journal of a man suffering from extreme depression, anxiety, and alienation because of a major problem in his life. That major problem in his life is life itself, or existence. The main character in this novel does not have anything terribly wrong with his life, e...
Nausea is basically about a historian who becomes increasingly nauseated by his existence but decides to muddle on. Reading the first half of Nausea feels like that. You just muddle on. The second half does get better and I do like the part about the chestnut tree, but I think Nausea is just one of ...
Yes, he was the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (which he declined - how cool is that!) but what really impressed me was that Sartre was Simone de Beauvoir’s partner. As a Feminist (like her), I revered her! Forget the Feminine Mystique, The Second Sex spoke to me like no other book...
When I read Death Note several years ago, I was very, very disappointed with its ending. So this self-righteous bastard, this mass killer, got Nothingness as his sentence? Not fair! Compared to that, Sartre's Existential Hell is, well, hell. At first glance, it might seem that the other way around...
Another that seeped into my cellular structure in a cafe while I chat up my former and future existences, concurring on all what consisted of being and nothingness there around them in my blood, my cells, my bones and then finally when they got up to leave, I left the world too...behind. I didn't lo...
I have to admit that I read this book in the summer between finishing high school and starting college - a time when I felt sure everything I'd been taught was irrelevant. When I read Nausea, I thought and acted like I had discovered the holy grail! I told all my friends (all 3 of them) they HAD to...
Not really a review, just saving a (long) quote."This feeling of adventure definitely does not come from events: I have proved it. It's rather the way in which the moments are linked together. I think this is what happens: you suddenly feel that time is passing, that each instant leads to another, t...
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