NAUSEA / BULANTI

Nausea, tells the story of well-to-do academic/intellectual, Ahmet. As an individual who acts as if he has ‘has never felt’, and ‘prefers not to remember’ the pain of personal tragedy, Ahmet inhabits a society that acts as if it ‘has never felt’ and doesn’t wish to remember the pain of collective tragedy. He is portrayed as an insensitive, unfeeling, loveless man with a hard-boiled take on life. So much so that, when the wife and daughter he was poised to leave are killed in a car accident, life is just business as usual as far as Ahmet is concerned; he has no compunction about carrying on his bedroom antics with women far younger than himself just as he did before. He is unable to communicate any emotion to the lover he brings home the first evening his wife is gone; whose behaviour clearly derives from weakness, not strength. The only thing that seems to anchor Ahmet to humanity is the presence of the resident caretaker, a widow who cleans for him and struggles to keep going in the basement apartment with her two children...