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A review by saintakim
La nausée by Jean-Paul Sartre
3.0
actually not the worst thing ever. I had to check how old he was when he published it because this is the most I'm sixteen and too smart for my own good and this is deep book ever, and a grown man of 27 (he finished it when he was 31) wrote it.
it's not that bad, it's sartrian existentialism in an half baked proustian prose with interwar jazzy veneer. really what foreigners have in mind when they picture this black and white chain-smoking cigarette image of french people talking in bar.
some details were very interesting, the role of colonial empire, the critical portrait of pre 68 french education and academia, the casual sex, the gender dynamics.
note: I have to address the fact that if I'm tough on this book, it's because I see a lot of myself in it lol
it's not that bad, it's sartrian existentialism in an half baked proustian prose with interwar jazzy veneer. really what foreigners have in mind when they picture this black and white chain-smoking cigarette image of french people talking in bar.
some details were very interesting, the role of colonial empire, the critical portrait of pre 68 french education and academia, the casual sex, the gender dynamics.
note: I have to address the fact that if I'm tough on this book, it's because I see a lot of myself in it lol