La nausea

I put a longer review of this book / a journal entry that I wrote while I was reading it in "my writing" since it was too long for this page. 6.9.07 Nausea is not a good thing to have as the only thing that belongs to you, and even worse as the only thing that you belong to. It is sickening and dark a Leggi tutto

The protagonist is a captive of loneliness and time. This sun and blue sky were only a snare. This is the hundredth time I've let myself be caught. My memories are like coins in the devil's purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves. For him there are no expectations and no changes in life… The Leggi tutto

We were talking about novels that begin really badly then change gear and turn into great reads. One of my favorites from this year did just that - Old Goriot . This is another. After 100 pages I was thinking I’d had enough, and as usual I wrote a mean-minded parody. THE MEAN-MINDED PARODY Monday 29th Leggi tutto

Ogier P. ('the self-taught man') is the symbol of everything that has gone wrong with the socialization process. Nausea places us in a situation where we have to ask ourselves: is knowledge for the sake of knowledge a wise way to spend your life; or can you have knowledge of trivial facts (e.g. game Leggi tutto

[Edited 1/18/2022] Two of the blurbs call this book Sartre’s “most enjoyable book” and “the best written and most interesting of Sartre’s novels.” Perhaps – I don’t know as the only other one I’ve read is No Exit, and so long ago I have no recollection of it. Wikipedia calls the novel one of the cano Leggi tutto