Hola jorge! I read nausea when I was 18 years old and I was mesmerized by the reading because in that period of my life I felt exactly like roquentin. So I am not the only one who is feeling so "nauseated", I said to myself. And I was relieved to know there was someone else who felt the same way I did. Thanks for your amazing review. Have a wonderful day, my friend.
Hola, Marinella! 😃 Thank you so much for sharing your experience of this text. It really shows one of the many ways that literature can help us understand ourselves and even get us through difficult times, even if it is just by letting us know that we are not alone in the way we feel. Thanks for watching and commenting, my friend, and have a fantastic day!
Hi Jorge! Many thanks for this poignant, highly resonating review. I am happy to have discovered your channel (by the way, the video that brought me to your channel was about Tove Jansson from 2 years ago)
Hello Bonnie! Welcome to Jorge's Corner! 😃 I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed this video. Ah, yes, the Tove Jansson review... it's been such a long time, but time flies. Thank you so much for watching, commenting, and subscribing, my friend; have an amazing day!
Hola Jorge! Creo que llegó un poco tarde a este video pero es que me ha resultado tan interesante! Dos cosas : parece ser que Sartre era una persona especialmente luminosa y que sin duda disfrutaba mucho de la vida. Lo sé por haber leído al completo las Memorias de Simone de Beauvoir y la Correspondencia entre ambos además de un libro de Gisèle Halimi que habla de él también en este sentido... Otra cosa: el tema del antídoto me ha hecho reír mucho! A mí también me afecta psicológicamente lo que leo y envidio (creo) a esas personas que son capaces de leer eficazmente pero con total distancia emocional de un texto. Yo también eligiría Le petit prince Como antídoto porque a pesar de que al final lloro a mares, es un texto emocionante y luminoso. Muchas gracias amigo por este sensacional video una vez más y besos desde el tórrido Madrid, Gabriela 😘
Hola Gabriela! 😃 Mil gracias por la visita y por tus excelentes comentarios. Súper interesante la visión de Sartre que presentan los textos que has leído. Yo sólo lo conozco a través de esta novela, sus cuentos y sus obras de teatro, pero ahora me dan ganas de explorar su vida un poco más a fondo. Sobre Le petit prince, te cuento que a mí también me hizo llorar, al menos en una ocasión. No sé por qué, pero es la parte del zorro la que me hace llorar. En otro sentido, quizás la poesía de Walt Whitman sirva de antídoto también, especialmente la primera edición de Leaves of Grass. Ahora que lo pienso, estaría lindo hacer un video sobre ese texto... ¡Muchísimas gracias nuevamente, querida amiga! ¡Besos desde EE.UU.! 😘
Of my favorite "outsider" novels would of course be Steppenwolf, Molloy, Metamorphosis, The Catcher in the Rye, Stranger, and of course anything by Dostoevsky! The Outsider by Colin Wilson is also a worthy read.
WOW, so many great novels!! We have similar taste. I will have to do a video on The Catcher in the Rye someday. I promise there will be one on Molloy and Beckett's trilogy for sure. 😃 I got a copy of Wilson's The Outsider last Christmas, but I still need to read it. And of course, I love Hesse, Kafka, Camus, and Dostoevsky. There's so much great existentialist literature!
Gracias por este vídeo. Este fue seguramente uno de los primeros libros de literatura que leí y su complejidad narrativa, una historia demasidad escabrosa, me sumergió en ese mundo fascinante de los libros.
¡Mil gracias por la visita! 😃 Me alegro de que te haya gustado el video. Se trata realmente de una novela fascinante. Siento que cuando la leí por primera vez no supe apreciarla, pero esta vez fue una experiencia diferente. ¡Muchos saludos!
Really interesting! Dostoevsky is a favourite, I really appreciated Notes from Underground, Hunger by Hamsun as well. The Stranger by Camus was one I don't think I "got" but I still liked it. Sartre on the other hand has always intimidated me, somehow I feel I'm not erudite or "prepared" enough to read his works. I feel the same regarding Kafka though I have read The Trial last year...don't think I "got" it. Very nice discussion. Maybe I try it some day. 🤞
Dostoevsky is amazing! 😃 I had a similar initial reaction to Camus' The Stranger. I have tried to reread it, in French, but for some reason I never finish and then have to start all over again. About Sartre, I haven't tried his philosophical works yet, but I had no problems with his fiction and his drama. The thing is, he is usually compared to Camus. My take on that is that Camus was a better fiction writer, while Sartre was a better writer of philosophy. And Sartre is "drier." Thank you so much for watching and commenting, my friend!
@@JorgesCorner I went through the same thing the first time I tried to read The Stranger. I stopped reading and started over again following the same mindset I use for Kafka's novels, which is basically knowing that there's nothing really "happening", characters are not strong characters with a clear goal. Pretty much all the things that you mentioned in your video about The Castle are, I think, easily transferable to the Strange to enjoy reading.
I totally agree with you, Daniela! 😃 Camus was a great admirer of Kafka (I need to reread that essay in The Myth of Sisyphus!), so it makes perfect sense. I will keep this in mind the next time I attempt The Stranger in French. Thank you so much for the visit, my friend, and have an amazing day!
No deja de sorprenderme cómo te las arreglas para reseñar todos los libros que me gustan, parece que compartimos muchos favoritos :) Recuerdo que hace unos años estaba dando una de las inopinados conferencias literarias que dicto a la fuerza a mis conocidos y mencioné exactamente lo mismo sobre La náusea: es un libro que se divide en dos partes clarísimas. Si el cambio drástico que se da en la vida de Roquentin al dejar de escribir sobre Robellon me impactó profundamente, fue gracias a que primero empaticé con la monotonía y el vacío de su vida durante la primera parte. Creo que no se puede pasar por La náusea sin que esta provoque un cambio. Para mí, las reacciones físicas del protagonista (en todo nivel, desde la náusea hasta la percepción de sus propias manos) hacen del libro una experiencia íntegra. Muchos textos abordan desde un punto de vista racional nuestra capacidad de perder el tiempo infinitamente, pero es raro es encontrar un libro que asocie este tema a una respuesta fisiológica.
¡Hola, Daniela! Qué bueno que tengamos tantos favoritos en común. 😃 Me alegro muchísimo de haber releído esta novela, y de no haberme quedado sólo con la primera impresión. Buenísimo que los dos hayamos notado el tema de la estructura. Estoy totalmente de acuerdo con tus comentarios en cuanto a la parte fisiológica y cómo este texto se diferencia de otros similares porque quiere hacernos sentir, literalmente. En El extranjero de Camus está el asunto del calor que siente el protagonista en ciertos momentos, pero eso es todo. En La náusea la conciencia del cuerpo es desesperante. ¡Mil gracias por la visita y el comentario, y muchos saludos!
I just finished the book and I really liked it. I also liked the conversation between Anny and Antoine, I thought it was very deep and insightful . In a way, I could relate to Anny a lot
I really like the second half of the book, primarily due to the conversations, with the Autodidact and of course with Anny. I could relate to her too. We hear about her from Antoine's perspective, but it would be interesting to have her side of the story. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, my friend! 😃
Great video my friend, I have subscribed. I am hesitant to touch this book as I feel like it could take me back to a dark place I have done a tremendous amount of work on to transcend and to move towards a more positive plane. Grateful for your insights as I can now see where the book is going rather than merely seeing it as a set of disjointed, neurotic, depressive scribblings. The Idiot by Dostoevsky will be my side read as antidote and disseminator of more positive energy. I am also reading the second half of Either/ Or, where B challenges the solipsism and self-centredness of A who narrates the first half. It is an interesting question on books like Nausea as to whether they make us feel more or less alone when we see a lot of ourselves in them? Is it more isolating to receive identification with the part of ourselves that leans towards depressive thoughts, misanthropy, meaninglessness, passivity and so to remain that way or does knowing someone else has felt like this make us feel validated and less alone? Do we need to read books like Nausea as cautionary tales so we take action to counteract these parts of ourselves that push us towards alienation or should we avoid them altogether?
Thank you so much, Paul, for watching, commenting, and subscribing! 😃 I love your reflections and questions about books like Nausea, and I hope more readers of the novel see these questions so that they can decide where they stand. I'm sure many readers would answer them differently upon rereading the novel years later too. Personally, I found a hard time connecting with the protagonist, even when I first read it at the age of... was it 20?... I think so. I do need some kind of antidote after reading a novel like this one, and the ones you mention are wonderful. Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard. Wow! I need to talk about my friend Søren one of these days. He has been a huge influence in my life, and I call him my favorite philosopher/theologian. That's the kind of existentialism for me. Have an excellent day, my friend, and happy reading!
@@JorgesCorner thank man, I appreciate it. I’ll keep an eye out if you make any videos about Kierkegaard, he is one of my favourite philosophers as well! I’m about 20% of the way through Nausea and am unsure whether to continue with it. I have a lot of things going on right now in my life that can push me back towards this type of thinking- chronic ill health which keeps me bedridden 24 hours a day being the main one- so not sure this is the book I need right now. I also feel it might undermine the wonderful brilliance of Proust I am currently reading, the call to draw beauty and inspiration from all the minutiae in the world around us- maybe I’ll come back to Nausea! Have a superb weekend my friend and happy reading 🙏🏻
If it's between Sartre and Proust, and I would definitely go with Marcel! 😃 I plan to talk about him one of these days too, for sure. What a brilliant writer; no wonder he's one of the most influential ever. Have a wonderful day, my friend, and sorry for the late reply! 🙏🏻
Last part, The Little Prince would indeed be a perfect antidote, my go-to suggestions would be something Dickens. He presents so much pain but always tinged with hope. No Longer Human, yeah perfect "antidote", sink into even worse misery🤣 Why not Disgrace by Coetzee while we're at it? 😁 I did not like those books. 🙈 Hmm...recommendation... with the caveat I am basing this on how I interpreted your discussion about Nausea - this is kind of allied in terms of searching for meaning, the why? - The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann? 🤔 Another one on my radar...The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil.
Oh, yes, Dickens! I haven't read much by him, but I will continue to explore his works. Haha, Disgrace, omg. 😄 I read The Magic Mountain 3 years ago. More to come about this, my friend! And yes, The Man Without Qualities is on my list too. I'm sure you will read it before I do, so please let me know what you think!
Read it - well, the half, around 30 years ago. Liked it then a lot, but never finished it. Tried it later again, 5 years ago or so - and then I couldn't get into it. Was the wrong time, I guess. You know Colin Wison's book The Outsider, yes?
Nausea is just one of those books, I know. Totally understandable. When I picked it up this time, I thought I didn't remember anything. As I read, I began to remember. You won't believe this, but I just got The Outsider, as a Christmas present. More to come about this, my friend. 😃
Hola jorge! I read nausea when I was 18 years old and I was mesmerized by the reading because in that period of my life I felt exactly like roquentin. So I am not the only one who is feeling so "nauseated", I said to myself. And I was relieved to know there was someone else who felt the same way I did. Thanks for your amazing review. Have a wonderful day, my friend.
Hola, Marinella! 😃 Thank you so much for sharing your experience of this text. It really shows one of the many ways that literature can help us understand ourselves and even get us through difficult times, even if it is just by letting us know that we are not alone in the way we feel. Thanks for watching and commenting, my friend, and have a fantastic day!
Hi Jorge! Many thanks for this poignant, highly resonating review. I am happy to have discovered your channel (by the way, the video that brought me to your channel was about Tove Jansson from 2 years ago)
Hello Bonnie! Welcome to Jorge's Corner! 😃 I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed this video. Ah, yes, the Tove Jansson review... it's been such a long time, but time flies. Thank you so much for watching, commenting, and subscribing, my friend; have an amazing day!
Hola Jorge! Creo que llegó un poco tarde a este video pero es que me ha resultado tan interesante!
Dos cosas : parece ser que Sartre era una persona especialmente luminosa y que sin duda disfrutaba mucho de la vida. Lo sé por haber leído al completo las Memorias de Simone de Beauvoir y la Correspondencia entre ambos además de un libro de Gisèle Halimi que habla de él también en este sentido...
Otra cosa: el tema del antídoto me ha hecho reír mucho! A mí también me afecta psicológicamente lo que leo y envidio (creo) a esas personas que son capaces de leer eficazmente pero con total distancia emocional de un texto.
Yo también eligiría Le petit prince Como antídoto porque a pesar de que al final lloro a mares, es un texto emocionante y luminoso.
Muchas gracias amigo por este sensacional video una vez más y besos desde el tórrido Madrid, Gabriela 😘
Hola Gabriela! 😃 Mil gracias por la visita y por tus excelentes comentarios. Súper interesante la visión de Sartre que presentan los textos que has leído. Yo sólo lo conozco a través de esta novela, sus cuentos y sus obras de teatro, pero ahora me dan ganas de explorar su vida un poco más a fondo. Sobre Le petit prince, te cuento que a mí también me hizo llorar, al menos en una ocasión. No sé por qué, pero es la parte del zorro la que me hace llorar. En otro sentido, quizás la poesía de Walt Whitman sirva de antídoto también, especialmente la primera edición de Leaves of Grass. Ahora que lo pienso, estaría lindo hacer un video sobre ese texto... ¡Muchísimas gracias nuevamente, querida amiga! ¡Besos desde EE.UU.! 😘
Of my favorite "outsider" novels would of course be Steppenwolf, Molloy, Metamorphosis, The Catcher in the Rye, Stranger, and of course anything by Dostoevsky! The Outsider by Colin Wilson is also a worthy read.
WOW, so many great novels!! We have similar taste. I will have to do a video on The Catcher in the Rye someday. I promise there will be one on Molloy and Beckett's trilogy for sure. 😃 I got a copy of Wilson's The Outsider last Christmas, but I still need to read it. And of course, I love Hesse, Kafka, Camus, and Dostoevsky. There's so much great existentialist literature!
As the preacher says, "Can I get an Amen".? Amen Jorge, another good one.
😄 Thank you so much, my friend!
Thank you! I loved this analysis. I’ve been looking for literary podcasts etc. for a while, and this is one of the best I’ve found.
Thank you for watching and for your kind words, my friend! 😃 I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. Have a fantastic day, and happy reading!
Gracias por este vídeo. Este fue seguramente uno de los primeros libros de literatura que leí y su complejidad narrativa, una historia demasidad escabrosa, me sumergió en ese mundo fascinante de los libros.
¡Mil gracias por la visita! 😃 Me alegro de que te haya gustado el video. Se trata realmente de una novela fascinante. Siento que cuando la leí por primera vez no supe apreciarla, pero esta vez fue una experiencia diferente. ¡Muchos saludos!
Really interesting! Dostoevsky is a favourite, I really appreciated Notes from Underground, Hunger by Hamsun as well. The Stranger by Camus was one I don't think I "got" but I still liked it.
Sartre on the other hand has always intimidated me, somehow I feel I'm not erudite or "prepared" enough to read his works. I feel the same regarding Kafka though I have read The Trial last year...don't think I "got" it.
Very nice discussion. Maybe I try it some day. 🤞
Dostoevsky is amazing! 😃 I had a similar initial reaction to Camus' The Stranger. I have tried to reread it, in French, but for some reason I never finish and then have to start all over again. About Sartre, I haven't tried his philosophical works yet, but I had no problems with his fiction and his drama. The thing is, he is usually compared to Camus. My take on that is that Camus was a better fiction writer, while Sartre was a better writer of philosophy. And Sartre is "drier." Thank you so much for watching and commenting, my friend!
@@JorgesCorner I went through the same thing the first time I tried to read The Stranger. I stopped reading and started over again following the same mindset I use for Kafka's novels, which is basically knowing that there's nothing really "happening", characters are not strong characters with a clear goal. Pretty much all the things that you mentioned in your video about The Castle are, I think, easily transferable to the Strange to enjoy reading.
I totally agree with you, Daniela! 😃 Camus was a great admirer of Kafka (I need to reread that essay in The Myth of Sisyphus!), so it makes perfect sense. I will keep this in mind the next time I attempt The Stranger in French. Thank you so much for the visit, my friend, and have an amazing day!
No deja de sorprenderme cómo te las arreglas para reseñar todos los libros que me gustan, parece que compartimos muchos favoritos :)
Recuerdo que hace unos años estaba dando una de las inopinados conferencias literarias que dicto a la fuerza a mis conocidos y mencioné exactamente lo mismo sobre La náusea: es un libro que se divide en dos partes clarísimas. Si el cambio drástico que se da en la vida de Roquentin al dejar de escribir sobre Robellon me impactó profundamente, fue gracias a que primero empaticé con la monotonía y el vacío de su vida durante la primera parte.
Creo que no se puede pasar por La náusea sin que esta provoque un cambio. Para mí, las reacciones físicas del protagonista (en todo nivel, desde la náusea hasta la percepción de sus propias manos) hacen del libro una experiencia íntegra. Muchos textos abordan desde un punto de vista racional nuestra capacidad de perder el tiempo infinitamente, pero es raro es encontrar un libro que asocie este tema a una respuesta fisiológica.
¡Hola, Daniela! Qué bueno que tengamos tantos favoritos en común. 😃 Me alegro muchísimo de haber releído esta novela, y de no haberme quedado sólo con la primera impresión. Buenísimo que los dos hayamos notado el tema de la estructura. Estoy totalmente de acuerdo con tus comentarios en cuanto a la parte fisiológica y cómo este texto se diferencia de otros similares porque quiere hacernos sentir, literalmente. En El extranjero de Camus está el asunto del calor que siente el protagonista en ciertos momentos, pero eso es todo. En La náusea la conciencia del cuerpo es desesperante. ¡Mil gracias por la visita y el comentario, y muchos saludos!
I just finished the book and I really liked it. I also liked the conversation between Anny and Antoine, I thought it was very deep and insightful . In a way, I could relate to Anny a lot
I really like the second half of the book, primarily due to the conversations, with the Autodidact and of course with Anny. I could relate to her too. We hear about her from Antoine's perspective, but it would be interesting to have her side of the story. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, my friend! 😃
brilliant video, subscribed!
Thank you so much, Sarah! Welcome to Jorge's Corner. 😃 I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed the video. Have a wonderful day, my friend, and happy reading!
Great video my friend, I have subscribed. I am hesitant to touch this book as I feel like it could take me back to a dark place I have done a tremendous amount of work on to transcend and to move towards a more positive plane. Grateful for your insights as I can now see where the book is going rather than merely seeing it as a set of disjointed, neurotic, depressive scribblings. The Idiot by Dostoevsky will be my side read as antidote and disseminator of more positive energy. I am also reading the second half of Either/ Or, where B challenges the solipsism and self-centredness of A who narrates the first half. It is an interesting question on books like Nausea as to whether they make us feel more or less alone when we see a lot of ourselves in them? Is it more isolating to receive identification with the part of ourselves that leans towards depressive thoughts, misanthropy, meaninglessness, passivity and so to remain that way or does knowing someone else has felt like this make us feel validated and less alone? Do we need to read books like Nausea as cautionary tales so we take action to counteract these parts of ourselves that push us towards alienation or should we avoid them altogether?
Thank you so much, Paul, for watching, commenting, and subscribing! 😃 I love your reflections and questions about books like Nausea, and I hope more readers of the novel see these questions so that they can decide where they stand. I'm sure many readers would answer them differently upon rereading the novel years later too. Personally, I found a hard time connecting with the protagonist, even when I first read it at the age of... was it 20?... I think so. I do need some kind of antidote after reading a novel like this one, and the ones you mention are wonderful. Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard. Wow! I need to talk about my friend Søren one of these days. He has been a huge influence in my life, and I call him my favorite philosopher/theologian. That's the kind of existentialism for me. Have an excellent day, my friend, and happy reading!
@@JorgesCorner thank man, I appreciate it. I’ll keep an eye out if you make any videos about Kierkegaard, he is one of my favourite philosophers as well! I’m about 20% of the way through Nausea and am unsure whether to continue with it. I have a lot of things going on right now in my life that can push me back towards this type of thinking- chronic ill health which keeps me bedridden 24 hours a day being the main one- so not sure this is the book I need right now. I also feel it might undermine the wonderful brilliance of Proust I am currently reading, the call to draw beauty and inspiration from all the minutiae in the world around us- maybe I’ll come back to Nausea! Have a superb weekend my friend and happy reading 🙏🏻
If it's between Sartre and Proust, and I would definitely go with Marcel! 😃 I plan to talk about him one of these days too, for sure. What a brilliant writer; no wonder he's one of the most influential ever. Have a wonderful day, my friend, and sorry for the late reply! 🙏🏻
Last part, The Little Prince would indeed be a perfect antidote, my go-to suggestions would be something Dickens. He presents so much pain but always tinged with hope.
No Longer Human, yeah perfect "antidote", sink into even worse misery🤣 Why not Disgrace by Coetzee while we're at it? 😁 I did not like those books. 🙈
Hmm...recommendation... with the caveat I am basing this on how I interpreted your discussion about Nausea - this is kind of allied in terms of searching for meaning, the why? - The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann? 🤔
Another one on my radar...The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil.
Oh, yes, Dickens! I haven't read much by him, but I will continue to explore his works. Haha, Disgrace, omg. 😄 I read The Magic Mountain 3 years ago. More to come about this, my friend! And yes, The Man Without Qualities is on my list too. I'm sure you will read it before I do, so please let me know what you think!
Read it - well, the half, around 30 years ago. Liked it then a lot, but never finished it. Tried it later again, 5 years ago or so - and then I couldn't get into it. Was the wrong time, I guess. You know Colin Wison's book The Outsider, yes?
Nausea is just one of those books, I know. Totally understandable. When I picked it up this time, I thought I didn't remember anything. As I read, I began to remember. You won't believe this, but I just got The Outsider, as a Christmas present. More to come about this, my friend. 😃
Instead of writing this book, he could have just looked at his own hands.
😃 Thank you so much for watching, my friend! Have a wonderful day!