Oh my goodness. I just finished The Fall by Albert Camus tonight. It was excellent. The whole novel is simply one man's monologue given over a couple days. It started out as an entry into he collection of short stories, Exile and the Kingdom, but it grew to be it's own novella. It bears a striking resemblance to Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, and I'm sure that's a connection Camus was deliberately making. It also bears a resemblance to Camus' first foray into fiction, The Stranger. The resemblance is fleeting though, as the two characters in the realize the world they live in is absurd, yet end up with completely different ideas about life in the end. Really though, The Fall is an amalgamation of The Stranger, The Plague, and The Rebel. An excellent, yet unfortunate, ending to a literary career so magnificent.
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