Yerevan Bestseller 4/14: Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Nausea” debuts in the ranking

YEREVAN, MAY 27, ARMENPRESS. Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” tops this week’s Yerevan Bestseller list. It is one of the most popular novels in the world.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez comes next.

"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez is 3rd in the list. “People are not always born the day their mothers bring them to the world: Life forces them to be reborn many times”, this is the philosophy of the novel. It was translated to Armenian by Frunzik Kirakosyan.

Mark Aren’s “Where wild roses bloom” is 4th. This is the second novel of the author which describes the inner world of an Armenophobic Turkish former serviceman, when he, already an old man, suddenly hears a lullaby song that reminds him of his mother and later finds out that the song is in Armenian: realizing his parents were Armenians. The same former serviceman spends his remaining life searching the graves of his parents, without knowing that it was a misunderstanding.

“Fahrenheit 451” comes next. Itis adystopiannovel byRay Bradburypublished in 1953. It is regarded as one of his best works.The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury asserted to be the autoignition temperatureof paper.

“The Alchemist” byBrazilian author Paulo Coelhois 6th in the list. First published in 1988, originally written inPortuguese, it has been translated into at least 67 languages as of October 2009.Anallegorical novel,The Alchemistfollows a youngAndalusianshepherd named Santiago in his journey toEgypt, after having a recurring dream of finding treasure there.

“Nausea”(French:La Nausée) in ranked 7th. It is aphilosophical novelby theexistentialist philosopherJean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel and, in his opinion, one of his best works.

The novel takes place in 'Bouville' (literally, 'Mud town') a town similar toLe Havre, and it concerns a dejected historian, who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself, on his intellectual and spiritual freedom, evoking in the protagonist a sense of nausea.

Márquez’s “Memories of My MelancholyWhores” is 8th in the Bestseller list.

“The Great Gatsby”by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald comes next. It was first published in 1925.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as1984, is adystopiannovel by English authorGeorge Orwell which concludes this week’s Bestseller list.

To complete the bestseller list, the following bookshops have participated in the survey: “New Book” (093-60-40-64), “Noah’s Ark” (56-81-84), “Armenian Book” (54-07-06), “Narek” (51-91-36), “Bookinist” (53-74-13), “Antares” (091-90-01-23) and “Zangak” (23-25-28).