What are you reading?

[Sombre]

Sartre - La Nausée

Please tell me how this is. I'm planning on reading it during Thanksgiving weekend (last week in Nov). Are you reading the original French or a translation?

EDIT: I'm guessing it's the original since you wrote the title in French.

[galia]

I just finished reading The Flood by Zamiatin, and I stongly recomend it to everyone. It' short and easy to read

I loved the congruence between the forces of nature and the power of human action born from feelings that are not at all intellectualised but rather express themselves physically, and make themselves understood through the body. This physicality of the human animal, and the things that make humans something other than animals, is really incredibly well rendered.

[LupinTheFourth]

INHO

Please tell me how this is. I'm planning on reading it during Thanksgiving weekend (last week in Nov). Are you reading the original French or a translation?

EDIT: I'm guessing it's the original since you wrote the title in French.

Nope, It's actually a Finnish translation. A good one I'd say.
I'm half-way through with it and I've liked it alot.
It's heavy, because of the plot/theme of the book, but I'd say it's rewarding.
Because of the over-analytic description of experience, it's almost like you're within the main character's mind.
I truly recommend this to you.

[jgan85]

Trying to finish a couple of stories I left over two years ago,of Laughable Loves (Kundera)

^ I must say that finishing that collection of short stories was a struggle for me - didn't find them enjoyable at all, in particular The Hitchhiking Game.

The Tradition of the New - Harold Rosenberg

^ he also did an essay and interview on Willem de Kooning for the Abrams monograph, slipping in some of his own ideas about the purpose of art in general and painting in particular
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PENNY STOCKS TO BUY

[Sombre]

Nope, It's actually a Finnish translation. A good one I'd say.
I'm half-way through with it and I've liked it alot.
It's heavy, because of the plot/theme of the book, but I'd say it's rewarding.
Because of the over-analytic description of experience, it's almost like you're within the main character's mind.
I truly recommend this to you.

Thank you. This is exactly what I was hoping you'd say. I borrow it from the library as soon as I have a chance.

[Faust]

Camus > Sartre

(Will continue with sweeping generalizations as I please)

[LupinTheFourth]

No....

Don't say that.
Still, I Would like to read some Camus' essays and I will.

C. G. Jung, now there's a good guy.
I can't wait to get my hands on the new book.
Hallucinations and voices in his head!!!
I hope they will print the drawings and all.

[galia]

Camus's Myth of Sisyphus was just as boring as Sartre's Huis Clos

that's all I've read from either, I really have very little interest in existentialism. Maybe because as a Parisian I has been crammed down my throat forever. It's cool if you enjoy it I guess, but there are far supperior but less known French authors of that time imo

[Faust]

Camus's Myth of Sisyphus was just as boring as Sartre's Huis Clos

that's all I've read from either, I really have very little interest in existentialism. Maybe because as a Parisian I has been crammed down my throat forever. It's cool if you enjoy it I guess, but there are far supperior but less known French authors of that time imo

Wow, you just murdered me.

[genevieveryoko]

thank you Galia. I read Nausea and I felt nauseated.

[BSR]

The Rise and Fall of the Will at L'Eclaurier, co-written by Christian and BSR.

A book to be read, of course. Don't skip the foreword by Sir Mailmoth, 'How I've learnt to love Paul Harnden and to forget about my wallet'.

Galia, you're so right about existentialists. BTW who are the French authors of this time that you like? I happen to love the previous decades and the following ones, but the French 50's mostly bore me.

[Sombre]

Camus's Myth of Sisyphus was just as boring as Sartre's Huis Clos

that's all I've read from either, I really have very little interest in existentialism. Maybe because as a Parisian I has been crammed down my throat forever. It's cool if you enjoy it I guess, but there are far superior but less known French authors of that time imo

thank you Galia. I read Nausea and I felt nauseated.

Wow. I am gutted. I'll give my own review of Nausea in a couple of weeks when I can read it. I hope it's different from yours.

[genevieveryoko]

ok, is this The Rise and Fall of... a real book? I'd like to read it, but googling it leads me nowhere...

[LupinTheFourth]

boring?

Camus's Myth of Sisyphus was just as boring as Sartre's Huis Clos

that's all I've read from either, I really have very little interest in existentialism. Maybe because as a Parisian I has been crammed down my throat forever. It's cool if you enjoy it I guess, but there are far supperior but less known French authors of that time imo

I think there's a cultural difference.

The focus of things is a bit different here and the way of life differ from eg. French equivalents.
Therefore, no room for the importance of a personal experience. <-For a self-centered person(like me) existentialism is a fine subject! among other things.

You wanna name a few less-known authors? I'm interrested to know more.

[genevieveryoko]

"I can't say I feel relieved or satisfied, just the opposite, I am crushed. Only my goal is reached: I know what I have to know; I have understood all that has happened to me since January. The Nausea has not left me and I don't believe it will leave me so soon; but I no longer have to bear it, it is no longer an illness or a passing fit: it is I."

- Sartre

I, personally, don't see what's so great about being nauseated. Not to discount the importance of the book though, or Sartre in general...sure, it's great. But for me it reminds me of this Henry Miller quote:

"And so, like a dead horse whose master never tires of flogging him, I kept galloping to the farthest corners of the universe and nowhere finding peace, comfort or rest"