The_Fall

The Fall The Fall (La Chute, 1956) I first read The Fall in college and thought it one of the best explorations of a single character I have ever or will ever read. Unfortunately, my paper on the work was less well received. In fact, it was given a mark of "C" with the advice that I pay closer attention to the story. To this day I consider The Fall an incredible character study in search of a story. Why does one need a perfect story, anyway' It remains my bias... the professor did not appreciate what Camus accomplished and overstated what Camus did not. (The preceding opinions are my own.) The Fall was Albert Camus' last completed novel. On the surface, it is a simple narrative as Jean-Baptiste Clamence recounts the events from the last few years of his life. On a much deeper level, The Fall is Camus' written confession. The work is filled with Camus' self-loathing and criticisms of various people, beliefs, he encountered. More than any previous work, The Fall reveals Albert Camus. As discussed in the introduction to the commentaries, Camus tended to use Algerian settings for his works, or he would favor symbols of his Algerian youth, such as fall, camus', work, story, one, jean-baptiste, himself, clamence, camus, sartre, life, character, young, worst, woman, sun, read, paris, open, ocean, night, narrative, lawyer, last, justice, exile, ever, attention, amsterdam, algerian, albert, after, action, act, , youth, years, wrote, written, world, works, while, water, views, viewed, view, various, unfortunately, under, thought, terrible