La Nausea | 
“Nesnelerin insana dokunmaması gerekir çünkü onlar canlı değildir. Aralarında yaşar, onları kullanır, sonra yerlerine koyarız: Yararlıdırlar, işte o kadar. Oysa bana dokunuyorlar. Çekilmez bir durum bu. Onlara bağlantı kurmak korkutuyor beni. Sanki hepsi birer canlı hayvan gibi…Bu duygunun çakıltaşından geldiğinden, ellerime ondan geçtiğinden kuşkum yok…ellerde duyulan bir tür bulantı bu.”
so-soI gave up on this previously when I was at university as I felt I had grasped the existentialist concept and didn‘t need to read past the third of fourth bout of Roquetin‘s nausea. I definitely appreciated it more this time around and even found it quite humorous. Ultimately there isn‘t much plot and the characters are unlikable, but it is philosophically thought provoking. 6/10
I find great satisfaction in reading great works of literature and history for many reasons. Understanding of how we got to where we are in the world, in literature, in thought, are few of them. There are an infinite amount of pieces in the puzzle we call life and each new connection opens the possibility for more. Between life and reading gradually a picture forms which can essentially be called a “world view”.
My dad asked me to procure these six books for him. He‘s doing an online course.
If I make it to 85, I can only hope to be as intellectually active as he is! 🤓
“. . . there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at #last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.” #QuotsyMar20
“Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.”
#QuotsyJune19 | 23: #Sketch
📷: Made with Typorama
pickI loved this! More than I was expecting if I‘m honest. Philosophically fascinating, but it didn‘t feel like a philosophy book unconvincingly dressed up as a novel, which is what I was afraid of. Thoughtful, abstract but not pretentious, surprisingly light at times, not at all the stereotype of a ‘very serious french philosopher‘ I might have expected. I‘m fascinated by existentialism now and definitely want to read more
pick“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.”
Bought in Shakespeare and company and started on the flight home from Paris! I desperately didn‘t want to come home, I had such a perfect weekend. Paris lived up to all of my expectations and being there in springtime with my wonderful boyfriend felt like something from a movie. Now to obsessively show everyone the photos and read my two new books
My Shakespeare and Company purchases! I‘m working on my small collection of books bought in translation in the countries they were originally from. Very happy with my French classics 🥰
I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!
Existentialist literature for an existential summer.
Jean-Paul Sartre's "Nausea" makes for a good read when you're sick of everything.
“My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.”
#QuostyMay18 | 3: #Yesterday
pickI‘ve delayed writing a review in this because I tend to find with books like this after a few weeks I have thought more about them and have more of an opinion but it hasn‘t really happened here. I love bits of this, I find a few bits dragged a lot, I might read it again and if your into this stuff absolutely read it but I think I prefer Camus at the moment
I‘ve been a real mess reading recently but I‘ve got stuff back together and hope to get through this today, mixed feelings so far
1. 38 in Aug 😰
2. 4 older siblings; nice even number of two brothers, two sisters & then I came along 🧟♀️
3. No
4. My Name is Red, Wizard of Earthsea, Tao Te Ching
5. I mean...?!
6. 😂😬
7. Shenanigans, malarkey
8. That I can be shy; I think it's painfully obvious but it's not, I'm told 🤔
9. Both. Partial to 🐶
10. Coffee
11. Tagged book 🤢
12. @Centique @Billypar if you wanna play :)
Thanks for the tag @vivastory #hallowhoareyou @Gyldholm
panI still have no idea what existentialism is. Written as a diary, we are trapped in the narrator's head and as he is not concerned with people, there is no character development. Written as if in the moment, the narrator does not know what is happening. So there is no plot development. The only part that I found interesting was the meeting with the past love. Their dialog was almost enough to make me care about existentialism.
#1001books
pickSartre is the kind of writer that makes me feel dumb. He is very intelligent and Nausea is a very polished novel. I know I will have to return to this in the future.
When I was dating, anytime anyone asked me out, I would stall until I found out who their favorite author was. If they seemed bewildered that I would ask, then I knew I didn't want to go out with them in the first place. My partner and I actually bonded over Sartre's Nausea [😂]. He sent me a drink in a bar, and I was always skeptical about that so I just cut to the chase and asked him what he liked to read. He had me at Sartre. #notinenglish
So much talk about existentialism happening around me, so I'm reading the father on this school of thought
Slightly late from helping my parents move! For #onewordtitles I've picked this which has been on my TBR for ages, I might try and get round to it next month if there's time! #photoadaynov16
Currently reading this beautiful book. It's really interesting but a little bit hard to understand. I'm going to take it slow with this one so I can really think about the deep message it has.
Still on the topic of overthinking, here is a man who reflects on his own existence and just drives himself crazy without knowing it. The more he learns, the more it gets... nauseating. Reading for reference so I'll know when to pause thinking myself. (If it is at all possible? -and here comes another thought...) #Currentread #PhotoADayNov16
Happy Birthday to one of my favorite philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre. "I cling to each instant with all my heart: I know that it is unique, irreplaceable - and yet I would not raise a finger to stop it from being annihilated." - Nausea
No reason for existing... I suppose, Monsieur, you mean that life has no object. Isn't that what people call pessimism?
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