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Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am?
When reviewing this philosophical short novel, one might be tempted to merely insert a gif of the head exploding scene from Scanners and call it a day. You will get no quick and easy plot summations here; the text is a ...more
When reviewing this philosophical short novel, one might be tempted to merely insert a gif of the head exploding scene from Scanners and call it a day. You will get no quick and easy plot summations here; the text is a ...more
The Fall is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. Set in Amsterdam, The Fall consists of a series of dramatic monologues by the self-proclaimed "judge-penitent" Jean-Baptiste Clamence, as he reflects upon his life to a stranger. In what amounts to a confession, Clamence tells of his success as a wealthy Parisian defense lawyer who was highly respected by his colleagues; his crisis, and his ultimate "fall" from grace, was meant to
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