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Houseboy
Houseboy is a 1956 novel by Cameroonian writer Ferdinand Oyono, originally published in French as Une vie de boy. Presented largely through the diary of Toundi Ondoua, a young African servant employed within the French colonial system, it records his growing awareness of the hypocrisy and violence surrounding him. The novel uses irony and an intimate first-person perspective to examine racism, col...
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Nausea
Published in 1938, Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea takes the form of a fictional diary kept by Antoine Roquentin, a researcher living in the French town of Bouville. His increasingly unsettling observations turn ordinary objects and familiar routines into sources of unease. The novel explores alienation and the subjective experience of reality, particularly the disturbing sense that existence has no nec...
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