Originally posted by Kamerat
[email protected] 27 2006, 05:31 PM
Has anyone read "La Chute" by Camus, from 1957 (I think)?
I was wondering if anyone could help me get a sorted out picture of the book: an understanding of the main character, and of what the book wants to tell us.
'The Fall' is probably one of the best Camus books I've read. It's definitive Camus, as important as 'The Outsider'. It centres around a mans quest to understand the hypocrisy and meaninglessness of his life. Sartre claimed that it was about Camus himself.
Bob Corbett says: "I found the book to be brilliantly crafted. A significant part of the philosophical message of the novel is that human knowledge of both the meaning of life and the nature of “the good” are beyond any exact human knowledge. Rather, the intellect is likely, on Clamence/Camus’s view, to be contradictory, uncertain, fraught with risk of error. It is seen as difficulty and likely to produce the mechanics of escape into certainty on the part of us mere humans."
Outline and Review (http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/personal/reading/camus-fall.html)