Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics)
Book Information
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Published
- 2000-11-30
- Pages
- 240 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 19.8 x 1.6 x 12.9 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780141185491
- ISBN-10
- 014118549X
- Price
- 1971 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Philosophy/Movements/Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from the French by Robert Baldick with an introduction by James Wood. Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of an introspective historian, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism. The book chronicles his struggle with the realisation that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning; a world in which he must find his own purpose and then take total responsibility for his choices. A seminal work of contemporary literary philosophy, Nausea evokes and examines the dizzying angst that can come from simply trying to live. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was an iconoclastic French philosopher, novelist, playwright and, widely regarded as the central figure in post-war European culture and political thinking. Sartre famously refused the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 on the grounds that 'a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution'. His most well-known works, all of which are published by Penguin, include The Age of Reason, Nausea and Iron in the Soul. If you enjoyed Nausea, you might like Albert Camus' The Outsider, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'One of the very few successful members of the genre "Philosophical Novel" ... a young man's tour de force' Iris Murdoch
Philosopher, novelist, playwright and polemicist, Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the central figures in post-war European culture and political thinking. His most well-known works include The Age of Reason, Nausea, and Iron In The Soul.
Reviews
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最高ですよ!!
洋書歴が長くなると、あることに気付くはずです。海外で評価が高いのに、日本では評価が低い本は、翻訳が問題である、と。そして翻訳者に問題がある場合の本も多々あるけど、そもそも日本語になりにくい英文があり、そこからの誤解も低評価の一因になってたりする、と。 一般書だったら、ダニエル・デネット、小説だとオンダーチェ、ラシュディあたりが(日本語になりにくい)英語のせいで、低評価をくらってます。 *** さて、この「嘔吐」が大学時代、日本語で読んだときはかなり失望した人間ですが、上記のことを知ってる僕としては、「日本語訳はかなりlost in translationしてるはずだ。仏語と英語は構造が似てるから、英語で読んでみよう」と思い、この英訳で読みました。 結果は「さすがノーベル賞作家。今読んでも色あせない傑作だ」と思いました。 あ、もちろん仏語で読むに越したことはないのですが、この英訳も非常にいいデス。 ダイヤモンドみたいな硬度のある英文です!!
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beautiful book
pretty and inexpensive good introduction
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Greta book. Decent Edition.
Great book and a decent Edition. This is a really easy to read starter book for anyone trying to figure out what Sartre is about.
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I love this novel
This is one of the very few books I have than once in my life, and I will probably read it again (and again). The descriptions are surreal and evocative. The images Sartre creates of the places and people are clear in my mind. All the senses are engaged. A wonderful little existentialist masterpiece.
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Existencialismo de bolsillo (pero de peso infinito)
Para aquellos que se adentran por primera vez en el existencialismo, La náusea ofrece una puerta de entrada desafiante pero reveladora. No se trata solo de leer una historia, sino de sumergirse en una reflexión profunda sobre la libertad, la angustia y la búsqueda de sentido en un mundo aparentemente absurdo. Es un texto que invita al cuestionamiento y a la exploración, perfecto para estudiantes que deseen empezar a entender la filosofía desde la perspectiva de un autor que, a pesar de su complejidad, hace sentir que la filosofía está viva y presente en cada instante de nuestra existencia. La náusea no es solo una novela: es un compendio filosófico que cabe en el bolsillo, pero que se instala con fuerza en la conciencia. Imprescindible para quienes buscan comprender —y cuestionar— el sentido de la existencia desde la literatura. Sartre despliega aquí una prosa densa pero luminosa, que no solo interpela, sino que transforma. Es un libro esclarecedor, incómodo a ratos, profundamente humano. Leerlo es aceptar un cambio de perspectiva: sobre uno mismo, sobre los otros y sobre el mundo. Tras su lectura, es difícil volver a mirar lo cotidiano sin esa vibración sutil de vértigo y lucidez. Una obra que no envejece, sino que se vuelve cada vez más necesaria.
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Captivating summer read
Many have objections to Sartre's writing, but I have thoroughly enjoyed the tense and to me, until now, unknown texture that only a great writer and bold thinker can achieve.