Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre Book Discussion | Existentialism

[@aysinyilmaz387]

I was having hard time reading this book. It is good to understand other’s perspective in such cases. Thanks for the video.

[@theelliotchan]

I'm glad the video helped! Thank you for the comment

[@colinsmith3945]

This is one of my favorite books. I go back and forth with this, and The Royal Song of Saraha (philosophy wise). The narrative isn't really as significant (in Nausea) as the inner thoughts of his diary (for me). The incredible thing about Nausea is it can be analyzed in a million different ways. Each time I have read it, I get something new and feel like there's always more. I enjoyed your take on it and think it was a valid interpretation. Good luck self taught man(haha, that's a reference).

[@WeTheKims]

nice new video! I'm interested to hear/watch more of these philosophy genre books. I've never read a narrative journal-style book that's about aimlessness but I imagine it would really challenge my patience and tolerance for boredom haha. Like you said... "not a page turner"

[@theelliotchan]

Thanks man! 👏 You definitely have to approach certain books with a different intention. If you are reading only to be entertained then it might not be fun, but if you read it with the intention to find ideas, then it's enjoyable - especially when you do read something that resonates. But I'm 100% sure that if I was assigned this book for school, it'd be painful. 📖

[@suruchijoshi7991]

I just wanted something like this before reading Nausea, Thank u ❤️

[@theelliotchan]

Thank you for the comment! Hope you enjoy the book

[@Erica.N24]

Nice having a discussion with you from the another corner of the world!😊

[@ITSVRmusic]

This book was beautiful.

[@fathimahazzahra7802]

a new video, reviewing Nausea? I'm happy.

[@theelliotchan]

Fathimah Azzahra 😁!!

[@nasrinvahidi5515]

You my friend are gooood. Keep up the good work.

[@izzysolomon6873]

Lovely to hear your thoughts on this, really enjoyed the format of the video and getting to see your views throughout the novel. Couldn’t find many videos on Satre’s work, glad I stumbled upon this! Keep it up 👍🏻👍🏻

[@theelliotchan]

I'm happy to hear you enjoyed my ramblings lol :) Thank you for this comment and the support!!

[@irinar4164]

awesome video, and ideas, thanks for sharing

[@theelliotchan]

Really glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the comment!

[@anastasiiabohush4571]

Keep posting, you're creating interesting content 😌 Thank you

[@theelliotchan]

Thank you for the support! More videos to come!

[@sohambasu3228]

Can you please suggest some more books like this one, apart from Camus, as I've read some of his books.

[@theelliotchan]

If you like Camus, I recommend Kevin Chong's The Plague, which is a modern take on the Camus classic. Thanks for the comment!

[@sohambasu3228]

@@theelliotchan will surely go through it, I have read Camus's The Plague, so would love to read this one.

[@richardking3206]

I’m not sure that setting the idea of a person having an ‘existential crisis’ at the beginning was very helpful in understanding this novel. The novel is about Roquentin struggling to make sense of the world around him, and for much of the time, failing, thus experiencing nausea and the absurdity of everything he sees, ie nothing making sense. Slowly, within this struggle, he begins to realise certain things, eg that a chair comes to be made so as to be sat upon, whereas humans have no such pre-existing design, so have to make up their own as they go along. That we are each of us our own project lasting our lives. The idea of bad faith then comes into play, as do various others, also. To really understand the novel it’s necessary to begin looking at Sartre’s take on Existentialism as a philosophy, as he developed the ideas initially laid out in Nausea in his philosophical works (eg Being and Nothingness, etc). I’m not really sure what a casual reader will get from the novel alone, except perhaps a lot of confusion, without much discussion or much further reading. His trilogy, Roads to Freedom, based around his experiences of pre-WWII and fighting in the War, has a more straightforward narrative plot. Sartre was a philosopher who wrote some fiction as well, whereas his early friend, Albert Camus, was a novelist who took some interest in philosphy. They ended up with differing ideas and fell out. Sartre’s long-term lover, Simone de Beauvoir, remained very close to him and his ideas, whilst developing her thoughts about feminism, too. In France he was a major cultural figure throughout his post-war life, and the streets were packed by thousands for his funeral.

[@Lucy-ym3hz]

nice vid.

[@theelliotchan]

thanks!!

[@robsmalls9656]

HELL IS PEOPLE.

[@thebraxtonater8466]

Hell is other people indeed

[@awareness123]

Hi elliot, i want to be your friend. I recently became aimless. Could you help me with couple of my issues?

[@zaprunes9986]

If your a human than you should be be interested

[@anonymousconflict2881]

You glossed over the part where the self taught man was actually a pedophile 😆 great video though 👌🏻 super weird but addicting book in my opinion.

[@josephnunes868]

If you are female and read this book....you are the person I want to marry...

[@chef.ramesses]

That's quite bad faith of you! Sartre would be enraged

[@josephnunes868]

@@chef.ramesses it was an exaggerated thought.....we all live with some sort of bad faith....it's like platos cave I don't think it's possible to really leave the cave...

[@chef.ramesses]

@@josephnunes868 i was being comedic but yes

[@Ambermarie13]

lol why

[@thetruth4654]

People can live like they normally would. The governments of the world aren`t allowing us to do it the world governments are the issue, not something that is like a flu to the majority of the people in the world