![]() It delicately mirrors the Fall narrative (hence the foreboding title) in the opening chapters of the Hebrew Bible. Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a self-described “judge-penitent” who eloquently details - in the form of an extended monologue, all spoken to a silent recipient - his journey from a didactic lawyer in the city of a Paris, to a debaucherous cad in private, and then a nihilistic connoisseur of self-reproach in the Dante-esque landscape of a seedy bar in Amsterdam.It is a philosophical novel that I encourage you to explore for yourself, as this essay is only a brief summation of my (ongoing) love affair with the text:įirst, I’ll offer a quick overview of the text. This essay will serve as a collection of thoughts and various reflections that I gathered upon finishing Albert Camus’ The Fall. The Fall of Man (Genesis 3), painted by Peter Paul Rubens, and Jan Brueghel the Elder. ![]()
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