The foreigner and the nausea: post -war context
Introduction
It is no coincidence that at a certain time of the twentieth century literary and intellectual production were filled with existentialist content. The authors, Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, both of French origin, wrote at a very early age the foreigner and the nausea, respectively, highlighting the context of the postwar period that persecuted them and that had great influence on the creation of the novels andmentioned. Sartre wrote a work that represents as few that feeling of vacuum that seems to afflict the contemporary man from the dawn of modernity.
Developing
A vacuum that perverts the perception of the world and leads to a fragile, chaotic existence and without apparent purpose. A philosophy that had its boom in the years immediately after World War II as a result of the horror that the world had seen in the first decades of the last century. From the beginning it is stated that nausea is the result of a personal writing process, it is a newspaper where the reflections of Antoine Roquentin are exhibited who is, by extension, the voice of the author himself. The character of Sartre’s text.
Break with his lucidity to enter a state of revelation, and this is what allows him to realize what is happening. See that everyone around them goes unnoticed by the details that disgust him and begin to feel fair, a nausea for life, by people, for himself. Despite finishing that horrible sensation, he continues with her, he gets used to it and ends up being part of him: ” The existence is not something that is far away from far: it is necessary that we invade us abruptly, that despite our hearts as much as both asA great motionless beast. If not, there is absolutely nothing ’’.
As a result of a long period of introspection, Roquentin reveals his insignificance in the world, but being a process of volatile nature, his reflections about it suffer multiple transformations;Therefore, the one that Roquentin shows among the first appreciations of him a feeling of dissatisfaction and, even, of sadness. We were a lot of uncomfortable stocks, pregnant with ourselves. We did not have the slightest reason for being there, neither.
And I lazy, languid, obscene, digesting, stirring melancholic thoughts, I was also more. Fortunately I did not feel it, rather I understood it, but I was uncomfortable because I was afraid to feel it (I’m still afraid, fear of getting through my neck and getting up like a wave). On the other hand, in the work of Camus, who identifies himself under a different conception of existentialism and maintains inclinations towards the philosophy of the absurd, exposes abroad the contingencies of an indifferent man before all the structures that mold the values.
And the sense of ethics and morals of societies. The same character mentions in the work, that everyone around him is strange, conformists, but these always get into situations that do not correspond to them. For example, in society within the novel a man who does not cry at the funeral of his own mother is in danger of being sentenced to death, and this is what happens to him. Its context is damaged, and this point becomes so vital because it is not far from the reality of the reader reality are, temporary mirrors, they are reflexes of the damage to the human being.
Meursault is governed under absurdist behavior, does not give it transcendence or some metaphysical sense to natural existence, but proves to have fixations due to physical experiences before interpersonal experiences. We cannot complain that what is not able to acquire. But when it comes to this court, the entirely negative virtue of tolerance must become the least easy but higher of justice. Especially when the emptiness of a heart, as discovered in this man, becomes an abyss in which society can succumb.
conclusion
Through this work there is a loss of feelings, of meaning, of the values where death does not even solve the human condition. In addition, Camus tries to reflect a kind of archaic society. In the novel the characters must fulfill a series of rites, for example, the wake that is done as a mere procedure, not by their own or because it is significant for the attendees. Another aspect is work, which serves to survive and nothing more, so at what time you live, at what time it exists. The authors being part of the current
Of existentialism and filling their texts as absurd that is living, or existing, it is no accident that both novels reflect a dilemma about life, on existence, and about the human being, concluding that after being there is only nothing remains. Two tired protagonists, of life, of routine, of looking for answers, but aware of knowing that very likely there is only empty and it is only accepted and ending up being part of that total nothing.
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