jean-paul sartre: nausea (la nausée)

[japanesebaby]

i was suddenly surprised to find out there was no thread for this one yet...
another book that has been repeatedly mentioned by robert as one of his favorites.

i think i didn't know it was "cure-related" by the time i read it, among my top 10 favorite books. made a very strong impact on me, both in pleasant and unpleasant way. strangely, i often think about this book although i never re-read it. some other books i re-read quite often but hardly think about them inbetween. hmm.
anyway, less about me and more about the book. who's read it?

[Janko]

I read it twice I think, in my early twenties.

It's a classic. Difficult to understand when you read it for the first time. Or in an early age...

Nowadays, I prefer The Roads To Freedom trilogy as my favourite Sartre novel.

But I never heard Robert mention Nausea ...

[Poe]

But I never heard Robert mention Nausea ...

*cough*

http://www.picturesofyou.us/tourprograms/tp-92-wish.htm
(it's okay to link to tour programs, right... )

And I think it was mentioned in Never Enough too, if I'm not mistaken...

Anyhow, I have read this book, but it was a while ago. I hardly remember what I read; I was fascinated by it, but a lot of it eluded me as well... I made loads of notes when I read it, haven't found them yet.

[Janko]

Book/Author - Gormenghast trilogy Mervyn Peake; Darkness at Noon-Arthur Koestler; The Eye of the Storm-Patrick White; Catcher in the Rye-J.D.Salinger; A Happy Death-Albert Camus; The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath; Nausea-J.P.Satre (sic); The Narnia Chronicles-C.S.Lewis; Siddhartha-Hermann Hesse and on...


Pretty dismal reading for Wish period huh?

...

[japanesebaby]

Book/Author - Gormenghast trilogy Mervyn Peake; Darkness at Noon-Arthur Koestler; The Eye of the Storm-Patrick White; Catcher in the Rye-J.D.Salinger; A Happy Death-Albert Camus; The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath; Nausea-J.P.Satre (sic); The Narnia Chronicles-C.S.Lewis; Siddhartha-Hermann Hesse and on...


Pretty dismal reading for Wish period huh?

...

continued on the swing tour (from 'the swing tour '96' tour book):

favorite book (robert): "les enfants terribles" - cocteau / "nausea" - sartre / "the fall" - camus / "gormenghast trilogy" - peake / "the trial" - kafka...


btw cocteau and peake were already in robert's favorite list in the head tour '85 tour book. so i don't think it was anything specially read during wish tour - just some of his all time favorite books.

and sorry to slip a bit but it's funny to compare the choices of the other band members:
the head tour '85:
lol: impossible!
simon: peter pan
porl: winnie the pooh, alice in wonderland
boris: science fiction

the swing tour '96:
roger: yellow pages

etc.

i wonder who's idea it always was, to include this "recommended literary" list on the tour books..

[revolt]

Book/Author - Gormenghast trilogy Mervyn Peake; Darkness at Noon-Arthur Koestler; The Eye of the Storm-Patrick White; Catcher in the Rye-J.D.Salinger; A Happy Death-Albert Camus; The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath; Nausea-J.P.Satre (sic); The Narnia Chronicles-C.S.Lewis; Siddhartha-Hermann Hesse and on...


Pretty dismal reading for Wish period huh?

...

continued on the swing tour (from 'the swing tour '96' tour book):

favorite book (robert): "les enfants terribles" - cocteau / "nausea" - sartre / "the fall" - camus / "gormenghast trilogy" - peake / "the trial" - kafka...


btw cocteau and peake were already in robert's favorite list in the head tour '85 tour book. so i don't think it was anything specially read during wish tour - just some of his all time favorite books.

and sorry to slip a bit but it's funny to compare the choices of the other band members:
the head tour '85:
lol: impossible!
simon: peter pan
porl: winnie the pooh, alice in wonderland
boris: science fiction

the swing tour '96:
roger: yellow pages

etc.

i wonder who's idea it always was, to include this "recommended literary" list on the tour books..

Clearly, Robert is the 'literary head' of the Cure.

I think 'Nausea' is a very interesting read and it is actually quite accessible, even if you think you 'don't get it' at first. The same goes for other Sartre novels/plays. Now, his pure philosophical work is a wholly different matter. 'Being and Nothingness' is a real endurance test, almost every page of it, and the fact that I somehow managed to read the whole of it still amazes me to this day...

[coxoxi]

I love Sartre! I heard about La nausée but never read it... Definitely on my MUST READ list now!

[Hero]

I recently read Nausea and it is absolutely the best book i have ever read. I found it quite moving actually and made me even more aware of my own existence. I also like that the word "superfluous" is used quite a few times .