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On this page,
it was proclaimed that
Saul Bellow's HERZOG
was Jean Paul Sartre's NAUSEA
at the Comedy Club
Below,
there are three examples
from HERZOG
to support
that proclamation:
1
Literate people appropriate
all the best things
they can find in books
and dress themselves in them
just as certain crabs
beautify themselves
with seaweed.
2
He tried to make
his lust comical,
to show how absurd
it all was,
easily the most wretched form
of human struggle,
the very essence of slavery.
3
A man may say
"From now on, I am going
to speak the truth."
But the truth hears him
and runs away and hides
before he's even done speaking.
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Now on my reading list:
ReplyDeletere-read both
HERZOG and NAUSEA.
I would advise you to read NAUSEA first
DeleteWill do.
DeleteNice. I remember No Exit (another Paul -- hint: his wife was Jane -- is supposedly responsible for the English title) more than Nausea, so if I get around to it I'll reread both.
ReplyDeleteNice to hear from you, RLS.
DeleteSomewhere, I read about Paul Bowles
being responsible for the title No Exit
but a very different mindset —in Harvard Lampoon—
claimed the title derived from a sign indicating
construction on a freeway off-ramp.
No Exit is a classic. Nausea is not.
The latter is just a personal favorite of mine