Book Review
The Fall (by Albert Camus)
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- What I disliked about the book was that it felt too complicated. Camus existentialism is usually simple and straightforward — there’s absurdity in life and we face existential angst that we must combat. But in The Fall, the protagonist’s story is quite convoluted — too convoluted for this simple joy.
Dakota’s law class later made me rethink the major “fall” of the story itself, that of the woman into the river, though. Was the lawyer’s inaction a moral failure? Is omission of duty a punishable offense? Or perhaps law school might be reading too much into Camus…