"Life begins on the other side of despair."

それ言うの忘れました。サルトルは自然が嫌いで、『嘔吐』のロカンタンは樹を見ると吐き気を覚えるんだけど、ジャズを聴くと吐き気が止まるんです。それが『ソウルフル・ワールド』をジャズの物語にしたこととつながると思います。#ソウルフル町山 https://t.co/25WGTHIcXy

— 町山智浩 (@TomoMachi) May 1, 2021

SARTRE: NAUSEA (ANALYSIS)

This novel project abandoned Roquentin indeed feels a sense of contingency, he understands that his existence is unjustified, without right: “Never before in recent days, I had sensed what it meant to exist ‘.” This awareness is accompanied by a feeling of unease, discomfort ontological: nausea.

 

Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre

The nausea is a bodily problem as much as it is philosophical. The only thing that appears to be able to alleviate the feeling is music or art, which Sartre suggests might allow us to move beyond the absurdity of existence to create positive meanings.

  

 

  Jean-Paul Sartre on How American Jazz Lets You Experience Existentialist Freedom & Transcendence 

 It is that very freedom and contingency out in the world, the inability to ground himself in reality, that produces Roquentin’s nausea and the existentialist’s crisis. And it is the jazz recording’s “irreality” that resolves it.

Summary

Section 5

Sartre leaves the question of how art can provide a meaning to existence unanswered. However, Roquentin feels confident that he can survive his Nausea by ignoring anxiety, living a life of action, and embracing responsibility. As Sartre wrote, "Life begins on the other side of despair."

　物語を失った現代人は、吐き気がするかどうかは別にして、多かれ少なかれ、目的、方向性や場所性を失った自分の生の存在に不安感を感じる。

　それに対して、ジャズなどの芸術が救いになるかどうか？・・・それは人によるわなあ。