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The Fall
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ISBN-13: 9780679720225
ISBN-10: 0679720227
Publication Date: 5/7/1991
Pages: 160
Rating:
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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3.4 stars, based on 27 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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Great monologue about the fall of man!!!
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Score one more for the Nobel Prize winners. In this obviously intellectual novel a once lawyer, boozing it up in a sleazy bar (lassomoir), wearies an affable patron with his lifes story, as well as his philosophy of justice. He is certain to bore the average reader as well. His triumphs give way to failure. His boastfulness of a stalwart career ends with a profession of a sham of justice. Why them does his listener put up with this? The last page will expose the truth. Unless you are writing a dissertation on Camus, you will never miss having skipped this one.
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Maybe I read this before, actually. I got to one point of this book, where nothing really happens and I hate the storytelling structure where he is talking to YOU, where there's this stolen painting and that sounded really familiar. Maybe I read it in high school.

Anyway, it's pretty forgettable and I can see why I forgot it.

I'm sure I missed lots of very important things that make this work great - there's definitely hero-is-a-Christ-figure stuff going on, but I was fine to just be done with it.
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by Albert Camus. translated by Justin O'Brien.