The Fall

Good confession concept and fun for about the first third.

A devastating analysis of the human condition

Very enjoyable but one of the most difficult reads I've ever come across. After finishing it I can't help but feel I could've gotten more out of the novel.

My "Greatest Book ever written". Maybe an odd choice, but i have read it many many times since I was 18 and each time i have got something new out of and a different perspective. a book that should be almost disintegrating as you reach your 40's through reading it !

Camus' foil to his masterpiece The Stranger. J.B. Clamence is the epitome of the soulless man who sells short his own conscience—a mundane Eichmann—completely opposite to Robert Bolt's Thomas More or, as I mentioned before, Camus' own Mersault. Engaging, witty and dry. The Fall will keep you turning page after page to find the roots of Clamence's depravity.

EXCELLENT BOOK!

Amazing. Do yourself a favor and read it. It's short, and by the end of the novella you find out the whole thing's meant to be a mind trip. Camus is one of the best writers of the 20th century, and you'll be jealous of the way he can lip off incredibly intelligent and witty sentences with such incredible and flawless ease.BE THE FIRST TO REVIEW "THE FALL". Submit your review at...more

Amazing. Do yourself a favor and read it. It's short, and by the end of the novella you find out the whole thing's meant to be a mind trip. Camus is one of the best writers of the 20th century, and you'll be jealous of the way he can lip off incredibly intelligent and witty sentences with such incredible and flawless ease.BE THE FIRST TO REVIEW "THE FALL". Submit your review at http://www.teenink.com/Submissions/   hide

Sometimes when I walk at night I hear a splash in the distance. I hear the fall.

Dark, dark, dark. I'm not an existentialist so I had trouble relating to the dismal resignation . . . important reading, yes. Pleasurable reading, not so much.