Read Nausea

Seven years in a Davos sanatorium arguing about Europe before 1914.

Harry Haller, half man and half wolf, and the Magic Theatre; Hesse's midlife crisis.

Meursault shoots an Arab on a beach because of the sun; Camus in a hundred pages.

Oran quarantined, Dr Rieux at work; Camus's novel of the Occupation and every epidemic since.

Expatriates drink through Paris and Pamplona; Hemingway's lost generation.

A Brahmin's son leaves the Buddha to find his own way, and finds it at a river.

Two tramps wait by a tree for someone who does not come; the play of the century.

A concierge who hides her intelligence and a girl planning suicide in a Paris building.