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Camus "The Fall" (Original Post) kairos12 Mar 2019 OP
Ah... La Chute defacto7 Mar 2019 #1
In my reading of Camus' work I read La Chute very kairos12 Mar 2019 #2
A great work lounge_jam Apr 2019 #3
Caustic truths. Exactly right. kairos12 Apr 2019 #4

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
1. Ah... La Chute
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 12:12 PM
Mar 2019

Sorry I missed your op. I don't remember getting a heads up on it.

The Fall. I haven't read it because I wanted to read it in French but now my frence is rather rusty. Your comment makes me want to brush up a bit, or maybe I'll just settle for english. A great piece of lit.

"And now newspapers are disappearing."

Prophecy?

kairos12

(12,817 posts)
2. In my reading of Camus' work I read La Chute very
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 01:54 PM
Mar 2019

late and its impact on me was immense. Sorry, I have no capacity in french so english had to do. A towering work of literature.

lounge_jam

(41 posts)
3. A great work
Thu Apr 11, 2019, 07:34 AM
Apr 2019

Although this seems like an insider thread, I couldn't help posting here.

The Fall is a very inventive work. It's not just full of caustic truths--caustic because we hardly ever admit to them--it's also a rant, a monologue.

The other person listening to the drunken rant never says a thing. If he does, his questions/statements are only implied and alluded to--of course, through our ranter's remarks.

If this were a play, just one person would be enough: either the ranter, or the helpless, silent interlocutor reacting to the ranter's voice.

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