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jleopold  ·  3763 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Nausea , by Jean-Paul Sartre [PDF]

This book man. At one point while I was reading, I found myself identifying a bit too readily with the narrator. That was when I decided I needed a life change.

At the same time though, it is a fascinating take on existentialist fiction, sharing a common type of narrator with Notes From the Underground, among other works. I'm not as familiar with him, but Camus seems to follow a similar trend. The voice of a narrator of the sort, a loner, uncaring, egoistic in a defeated way, and very mentally unstable is able to bring across messages that would sound almost corny from a more normalized character's mouth.