Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7303 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Synopsis
In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian, records the disturbing shifts in his perceptions and his struggle to restore meaning to life in a continuing present and without lies. This is Sartre's first published novel and his first extended essay on existential philosophy.

Customer Reviews

A modern parable
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
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
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 .....