tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post5338991638777184569..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Sartre's Nausea, doubtless very well known to you - and which I am incompetent to expoundAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-64131951245522716912018-10-09T23:10:56.021-05:002018-10-09T23:10:56.021-05:00Guilloux is terrific. I'd never heard of him e...Guilloux is terrific. I'd never heard of him either before about a year ago, but <i>Le Sang Noir</i> is tremendous.seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-9815650312315091672018-10-09T23:02:05.773-05:002018-10-09T23:02:05.773-05:00Maybe there is an advantage to just reading No Exi...Maybe there is an advantage to just reading <i>No Exit</i>. In the Vintage edition, it is only 44 pages. It <i>is</i> a short play!<br /><br />I have never heard of Guilloux, nor Palante. Strange stuff.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-28205250184559304322018-10-09T15:39:12.577-05:002018-10-09T15:39:12.577-05:00Your comment makes me think of Louis Guilloux'...Your comment makes me think of Louis Guilloux's terrific <i>Blood Dark</i> (<i>Le Sang Noir</i>), which is actually <i>about</i> a <i>lycée</i> teacher - though not so unknown. Georges Palante, on whom the novel was based, must certainly have been known in the philosophical circles in which Sartre moved, and <i>Blood Dark</i>, written around the same time as <i>La Nausée</i>, would make for a pretty interesting comparison since the main character suffers from a similar kind of existential nausea.seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-53233925370688057542018-10-09T14:45:32.357-05:002018-10-09T14:45:32.357-05:00I saw a production of No Exit once. I enjoyed it f...I saw a production of <i>No Exit</i> once. I enjoyed it for about 20 minutes. It would have made a cracking short play, but once it makes its point, it just goes on making it, and making it. That is very probably the main point. It's not a patch on <i>The Third Policeman</i>.Mimic Hootingshttp://mimichootings.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-11482434049512557182018-10-09T14:38:32.715-05:002018-10-09T14:38:32.715-05:00Yes, or Rowling, and for more accuracy, "The ...Yes, or Rowling, and for more accuracy, "The filmed versions are doubtless very well known to you."Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-92070830376697896652018-10-09T14:02:40.926-05:002018-10-09T14:02:40.926-05:00"What novel, published almost twenty-seven ye..."What novel, published almost twenty-seven years earlier, in English for sixteen years, could today’s lecturer use?"<br /><br />A Game of Thrones, maybe? (27 years + 16 years)/2 = 22 years ago. Your point about this being a different world is just reinforced by that example, though.Cleanthesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15363416290397892659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-27168084517162764892018-10-09T12:43:55.015-05:002018-10-09T12:43:55.015-05:00Ha, that's pretty rough. I'll read that V...Ha, that's pretty rough. I'll read that Vian novel someday, I hope.<br /><br />I suppose one way back into <i>La Nausée</i>, around Vian, is to remind oneself that the novel is not really the work of a celebrity philosopher, but of an unknown <i>lycée</i> teacher.<br /><br />Hey, no wonder it feels like it was written for <i>lycée</i> students. This deep thought just occurred to me.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-38479500485837987992018-10-09T12:08:38.564-05:002018-10-09T12:08:38.564-05:00I haven't revisited Nausea since university, b...I haven't revisited <i>Nausea</i> since university, but I seriously doubt that I'll ever again be able to give it whatever gravity it may deserve after reading Boris Vian's <i>L'Écume des jours</i>. Vian and Sartre were friends, but in <i>L'Écume</i> Vian portrays him as "Jean-Sol Partre," celebrity philosopher, who arrives at a conference riding on an elephant as the mob around him is kept at bay by a corps of sharpshooters. Partre is about to finish his 20-volume encyclopedia of nausea, and at the conference hands out vials of different kinds of preserved vomit as souvenirs to his fans.seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.com