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AI InsightFinally, after studying the place of women in the eyes of the main characters in both novels, we will attempt to explore the literary and philosophical universes of these two works through comparison.
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Abstract
This study aims to demonstrate the similarities and differences between the two characters from twentieth-century novels: Antoine Roquentin in Nausea (La Nausée) by Jean-Paul Sartre and the character “C.” in The Idle Man (Aylak Adam) by Yusuf Atılgan. Antoine Roquentin can be considered the archetype of Sartre’s existential philosophy, and both his character and the novel influenced almost an entire generation. Whether Yusuf Atılgan is inspired by Sartre remains an open question; however, the character C. undoubtedly bears the traits of Antoine Roquentin: he is constantly bored, struggles to give meaning to the world and to the people around him, and he’s in a state of complete alienation. He is the prototype of the indecisive, disoriented, and alienated man of the postwar period. In our article, we will analyze the traits of these two characters from a semiotic and comparative perspective. We will then examine key notions in each novel, such as “deliverance,” “anguish,” and “overflow.” We will also approach the coenesthetic point of view of the subject matter, according to Jacques Fontanille’s understanding of the term. Finally, after studying the place of women in the eyes of the main characters in both novels, we will attempt to explore the literary and philosophical universes of these two works through comparison.