Title: nihilism? it's more like romantic tragedy
Product review: A mention in some article about nihilism directed me to this book, and the "about" seemed promising.Well, this is the wrong kind of nihilism.Maybe I read too much of the Stoics recently, but the characters feel like unstable crybabies plagued by boredom and, as the original French name suggests, by the "extension of the domain of the struggle" into sexual sphere, the struggle in which they are losers. They see nothing (nihil?), and they are very unhappy about it. All thru the book. Sometimes they are sad, sometimes they lapse into fight-club-esque behavior, sometimes they are suicidal, but whatever they are, they are not any philosophical or intellectual - the book is all about emotions.I derived nothing from this book, although it does make for a somewhat entertaining easy reading.
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