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	• The Fall Albert Camus Vintage, 1991 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 91 reviews view larger image
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Outstanding Camus

This book is one of the best from one of my favorite authors, whom I turn to when I need solace from this crazy world. Camus asked and answered the universal questions. "The Fall" explores all of them, reminding us of the mystery of existance and the complicated nature of human behavior.

Camus is amazing!

This is the second piece of work I have read by Camus, the first being is most well-known work, The Stranger. Albert Camus is an amazing writer and one of the few philosopher's that I've read, that can actually make his philosophy become amazingly interesting and engaging. Camus' characters are completely human and one wouldn't be suprised to encounter an actual person like one of them in a bar or at the local beach. His style of writing is elegant and beautiful to the point that even though you're excited to see how the work conclueds, you will often find yourself never wanting it to end. It is such a sad thing, that Camus died because, I know that if he had lived longer we would have a great deal of more beautiful works of the written art to comsume ourselves in.

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Not a novel more than non-fiction description

Its too hard to describe this though it is a novel, set under a guise of a fauex monologue by someone named Clamence. Basicly the French expatriate saddles up a simliar minded Frenchman (You the reader) yet naive confidant at a dive bar in Amsterdam. Sounding more like a swindler or shuckster Clamence entices the reader into acting as a witness to his confessional. Chronicaling his rise to prominace both socialaly and financialy and descent into murky paranoia, the monologue ropes you in with hints of common experience, abeit in a social cynasism sort of slant. In the end Clamence shares the secret of life with the unasuming reader though it could take one, as did me, multiple readings to interprut. This should be the quintesential piece to describe Camus' philosophy even though as literature it is hard boiled and seriously lacking plot. Ive read it at least 6 times.

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The Angusty Of Camus

In my humble opinion, after reading all of the works of Albert Camus, I still think that "The Fall" its one of the best works from him, the angusty and anger of Camus is reflected in the ways of Jean Baptiste, the critics are incrideble, and the plot is simple but with such a bitirness...
Such an amazing work...

Cartesian Frenchman

The setting is a bar in Amsterdam. The speaker is Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a lawyer. The name of the bar is Mexico City. Clamence says he is a judge-penitent. In Paris he specialized in representing victims and in being on the right side. He had scorn for judges. His courtesy was famous. He was considered generous. He always wanted to be lofty.

A turning point had been reached when a woman previously unknown to him had committed suicide. He did not know for certain, he did not read the papers after the incident. He had failed to acknowledge her. For a long time he had lived an illusion of shared general agreement. Basic truths are simply truths we discover after all the others.

He never believed human affairs were serious matters. The term justice gave him strange fits of rage. He felt stifled. He wanted to break open the wax figure presented everywhere. He states that for thirty years he was in love only with himself. Truth is a colossal bore. The character finds his vocation at last in public confession.

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