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Love and Nausea
Robert, married to the shrewish Deborah, reminisces over a youth spent imitating the hero of Sartre's "Nausea" and he remembers with longing his first love, Eva. But when he catches his wife in flagrante with his erstwhile friend, he considers accepting Eva's invitation to join her in India.
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279 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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June 20, 2012
The author of this book has read Sartre. Reading this book is like being stuck in a lift with a man who has read Sartre and wants to tell you all about it. If you like being beaten about the head by a man who has read Sartre then read this book. If you don't, then don't. I'd rather read Sartre.
February 4, 2020
Perhaps I'm not British enough, or enough of a Sartre fan, but this went right over my head.
December 19, 2012
Ok book. I think it was recommended in the same list as "throwing the house out of the window".
A promising start - set at a party of middle class people in 1986, the hapless Robert strtuts out to the swimming pool with a bollock dangling out of his trunks worrying about his physique and lack of suntan.
We quickly establish that he has recently been contacted by his former girlfiend, Eva, and this shows his resentment to the polar opposite wife he has, deborah.
The book is then told in three parts as we have the pretentious student falling for Eva and trying to live his life through books and being politically correct. Causes a few laugh out loud moments.
What is particulary interesting are the references to Jean Paul Satre and some of his observations on life - which read like Houellebecq and would have probably be noted down - which is something that I must start doing again! How many times will I say this.
Lots of references in amazon reviews to an unforgettable commune scene. Which I have forgotton.
That kind of sums up my memory of the book - OK whilst it lasted but not one to stay in the long term memory.
A promising start - set at a party of middle class people in 1986, the hapless Robert strtuts out to the swimming pool with a bollock dangling out of his trunks worrying about his physique and lack of suntan.
We quickly establish that he has recently been contacted by his former girlfiend, Eva, and this shows his resentment to the polar opposite wife he has, deborah.
The book is then told in three parts as we have the pretentious student falling for Eva and trying to live his life through books and being politically correct. Causes a few laugh out loud moments.
What is particulary interesting are the references to Jean Paul Satre and some of his observations on life - which read like Houellebecq and would have probably be noted down - which is something that I must start doing again! How many times will I say this.
Lots of references in amazon reviews to an unforgettable commune scene. Which I have forgotton.
That kind of sums up my memory of the book - OK whilst it lasted but not one to stay in the long term memory.
September 5, 2008
Some interesting moments and funny in places, yet the pace was slow and I didn't find it a page turner.
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