This is better than The Stranger.
How is the dudes mindset in the stranger conducive to everyday life, I mean I get he's all existential etc but wtf is the point in possessing that mindswt
>>7505450
Agreed. Moving on.
this was garbage
>>7505450
Oblomov is better than both
>>7505450
On the contrary. The last few pages of Camus's novel are far better than the whole of Nausea.
he subscribes to the good/bad dichotomy
>>7506167
I agree with you, but how are the two even comparable?
Both are awful fiction writers. Pretty much universally agreed upon
im going to let you finish but Notes From Underground was the best existentialist novel of all time. the best existentialist novel of all time
>he can't understand philosophy unless it's in the form of a story
>>7506197
did you read them in french?
>>7506203
whats wrong with that?
>>7506203
>implying you can 'understand' anything
>>7506207
>he's asking me what's wrong with that
I've only read No Exit and Dirty Hands. What other stuff by Sartre should I read?
>>7505450
Nausea is syrup, the Stranger is water. It depends. Roquentin is self-indulgent, has a violent change forced on him, and arguably ends up failing to grapple with it by retreating into the purportedly immortalizing power of art against the falsity of history, while Mersault is a kind of anti-hero that comes to recognize explicitly what he seems to have known all along.
>>7506203
>he reads philosophy
>he takes his opinions very seriously because of it
>>7505450
schizoid personality disorder: the novel
>>7506469
>reading nausea naturalistically
fucking disgusting
