This title has a series of monologues by Jean-Baptiste Clamence, the self-proclaimed “judge-penitent”. In the monologues, he reflects upon his own life to a stranger, which makes it a confession.
He talks about his follies and accomplishments, and the book continues to explore other themes such as imprisonment, innocence, truth and non-existence.
What Jean-Paul Sartre called “perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood” of Camus’ works, The Fall is an enduring novel that brings out the most intense philosophical thoughts of one of the most renowned philosophers of the world.
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