I read The Fall a couple times this year and LOVED it! The perspective, the way you slowly realize the narrator is not just a normal dude, but someone with some SERIOUS issues, and then that gut punch at the end! All throughout it's filled with an absolutely tangible atmosphere to boot.
I truly felt like the narrator's trying to bring judgement on himself from others & then feeling justified in his own judgements is a behavior I used to exhibit a lot myself, and one I definitely still see often in others. (This explanation does not sufficiently explain the revelations and insight we gain from the book) I'm glad Camus could give me a way to begin to understand and talk about that quality in people.
Has anyone else here read it or had any thoughts? I'd really like to just open up the discussion!
Been a while since I read The Fall, but when I did read it, I definitely got the idea that it was an unreliable narrator type of book (similar to the narrator in Lolita). Besides that, the way the narrator seems like they're jaded from their own failures and perhaps even doubts himself due to some insecurity with respect to his achievements also stuck out to me. Would have to give the book another read but I would definitely agree the way the narrator speaks to the reader from start to end is semi-confession, semi-revelation.
I truly felt like the narrator's trying to bring judgement on himself from others & then feeling justified in his own judgements is a behavior I used to exhibit a lot myself, and one I definitely still see often in others. (This explanation does not sufficiently explain the revelations and insight we gain from the book)
I'm glad Camus could give me a way to begin to understand and talk about that quality in people.
Has anyone else here read it or had any thoughts? I'd really like to just open up the discussion!