LA Nausee

As described

I mean I am not yet completely fluent in French but I am learning and this helps because holy heck it is kinda hard sometimes or maybe I'm just dumb. So if you're a learner and you've been only learning like 1 year it's readable and helpful. Also it helps if you've got existential issues or want people to think you're like, really smart when they see you reading it. And you can sound pretentious to fellow southern US americans.

Unfortunately Veronica Slater is seriously wrong about La Nausee. This book is not a gift from Heaven, nor could it be. It is a gift from Sartre, the existential atheist. If it were a gift from Heaven then Sartre would be a hypocrate, seeming as that he doesn't believe in God. This book is deep, but not for a Philosopher, nor for a true philosophy lover. It introduces the reader to the mind of Sartre, to the truly existential way of mind. It lets the reader know that not everything is as concrete as one has come to accept. And, it is true, the realization that things have no true meaning, that definitions are not of an object's essence, can be quite nauseating. So don't read this book after eating a full course meal...

This is a great capture of Sartre's earlier thinking. It's well written and reasonably easy to understand (compared to some of the later works). Reading Sartre in French is the way to go: he makes a lot of use of the sound of words. He also adds to the meaning of what's written by using words with multiple definitions. It's a real struggle for my high school French, but it's worth the effort.

Sartre's thought-provoking first novel about a historian, Roquentin, in 1930s France, going through the motions of living, discovering himself to be an existentialist

I approached this after reading several of Sartre's formal philosophical works. I saw it as an opportunity to improve by French and experience philosophy from a different perspective.I walked away from reading this book thoroughly confused about its popularity in Language Arts / Literature curricula across the United States and Europe. The novel is extremely boring and only manages to make waves during the last third of the novel, when it becomes more blatantly and directly philosophical and stands out less obviously as a work of fiction. Sartre's edge as a philosopher is obvious. His fame as an author is bewildering. I can't imagine anyone being meaningfully moved by this novel.

Just as described and good enough for the price.

Just as promised

Hablar de éste libro es difícil, especial para quien no se conforma con sólo pensar.....

EXISTÊNCIA

Classic Sartre in classic edition. Very readable. Sartre ideas are now almost so commonplace it’s easy to forget that he popularised them in a way few others did.

It's your basic paperback book, and the content is pretty interesting. As a second-language learner, it was a bit difficult to get through, but it was nevertheless a good read.

Uno dei classici della letteratura francese che meritano di essere letti almeno una volta nella vita