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| Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jean-paul Sartre
Creators: James Wood, Robert Baldick
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 8068
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 014118549X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780141185491
ASIN: 014118549X
Publication Date: November 30, 2000
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 love it or hate it. Why commit to either? September 20, 2008
Sartre really got under my skin with this one. He really presents life as a taleless incongruent jumble of unconnected events and when you allow him to really get to you, it is a scarier notion than it first appears. Having said this though, this is not a book for the intellectual or literal sloths, I found it demamnding. Not because it is complex but more because a book about profound ennui -which this is- is boung to cause some boredom even if it is not as profoundly felt as it is by our hero. (or victim, he seems to be equally both)
Some have criticised this book on the basis that little happens at certain points but anyone who understands the book can see that the uneventfulness of it all is the point. Where there issn't an event, Sartre realy makes you feel it, and where there is, he makes sure he steals it away or at least your conviction that it is meaningful.
In a way it is the opposite of what most writers and poets do; Sartre does not take an ordinary event and adorn it with literature hence unvelling for the reader the richness of an event. He seems to actually treat that sort of thing as an inflation of reality. He takes what is ordinary and unclothes it to its barest form and infects you with its emptiness. No only so but he does not allow you your own fantasies; he shows you that in trying to disagree with him, you're very likely commit this fallacy of event adornment. To which of course he has a cure.
Maybe I allowed Sartre to get to me too much, maybe I saw too much that wasn't there but I say all this to explain that I hated this book as much as I loved it. I couldn't stop reading the boring bits because I understood that they were there to make the point. But they were somewhat grating to the soul even if the truth of them was exilaratingly sweet.
Perhaps i read too much into things.
A modern parable August 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good example of philosophy told as a story, not as an argument. It works reasonably well and it succeeds in defining and illustrating "Nausea" excellently. We all at times come to the edge of the sea.
I didn't particularly enjoy the "novel" side of this book. The story is OK, but didn't grip. I read the book to understand the concept of "Nausea" better and I achieved this.
An important book for the concept it illustrates, but not the most pleasurable read.
 Benchmark November 22, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
As soon as the summer holidays started I got on with the weeks of welding and tinkering necessary to bring my drawings to life. By August I had successfully turned my brother's school-loaned trombone into a fully operational bicycle - something akin to a recumbent bicycle with back supporting seat and horizontal pedalling position - I even made sure of re-routing the trombone's mouthpiece to use as a horn in traffic. I had realised my drawings and doodles drawn during school lessons, but felt deep in my heart that I knew the machine wasn't finished yet - why ride a trombone from John O'Groats to Lands End, when you can fly one across the Atlantic - that was it, I was on another mission, a mission to make my trombone house a propeller engine and bare wings.
 What is nausea August 20, 2007
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
Nausea is Sartre's first novle ,Maybe also is the most successful novel because this novel contains all his later philosophy ideology .What is the nausea?It is a discomfortable feeling when Roquentin faces the chanciness and unknowability of the world ,Also the meaningless existent ,human dissimilation and absurd reality come into being nausea.When I read this book I feel gloomy and pressimistic,Campared with Camus's novel Nausea is more stream-of-consciousness,My view about the chanciness and unknowability of the world is very different with Roquentin,I think just the chanciness and unknowability of the world make our life more brilliant and beautiful .....
I just can't shake this feeling. July 31, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am sad to agree with "professorkeitch" a reviewer below, If this wasn't by Sartre I probably would have never read it, but it is by Sartre. This certainly is a good book and an excellent step towards existentialist thought. Well worth reading. Frankly Sartre could have written a VCR manual and we'd still read it. However we can't forget that he's not the be all and end all, Camus, Nietzsche, Kafka, Dostoevsky, they're all good but Sartre's one of the best.
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