![]() ![]() He tries to narrate a coherent story about that life, but instead Roquentin finds himself overwhelmed by things. It’s the story of a man called Roquentin, who undergoes a kind of philosophical nervous breakdown while he’s trying to write a biography of an 18th century character, the Marquis de Rollebon. Although it is a novel, it’s a novelization of philosophical ideas, so you approach the philosophy through one literary character’s individual crisis and you approach that crisis through a sequence of ideas. It’s readable, it’s powerful, it’s sometimes a bit ridiculous, but it’s intense. It’s what first made me curious to learn more, and that’s exactly what the book does. One is that it’s the first existentialist book that I ever read. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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