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I managed just in time to finish this book today. I feel happy since I have missed a lot of deadlines lately. Book No. 17 on my list was Nausea  by Jean-Paul Sartre. I find it very difficult to give a review of the book. It is probably for someone that know much more of the philosophical world than I do. But, I will make a humble try! First of all, what is it all about? This was Sartre's first novel and according to himself, the best of his works. Sartre was an existentialist and his life's studies and research. This you realise when you read the book. The main character, Mr. Antoine Roquentin, a historian lives in Bouville (a fictional seaport town), where he is trying to write a book about an 18th century, French, political figure. During the winter he is taken over by a sort of sickness he calls nausea. It effects everything he does. He looks at everything around him, how people look, what they are doing, how the trees look, why they are blowing in the wind, the waves of t...

Time for my first classical spin (see below). The number 17 came up. I am rather relieved since I intended to read this book within short anyway. So before October 6, I will read La Nausée by Jean-Paul Satre, that is Nausea in English but I will read it in my Swedish version, Äcklet . The translation of the title in Swedish, is not a true translation of the words, and the title they use is not so nice. Hopefully the book will bring something nevertheless. I am curious about it since I recently read a book by Simone Beauvoir, his life long companion. Let's be surprised!