This is a love story of a leprosy patient who suffered the disease at the end of XIX century, when the cause of the leprosy was attribute to a divine punished.This novel was written based on facts taken from the history of medicine and of leprosy. The characters are fictitious, although real patients and facts inspired them.
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Betrayal Deception Forgiveness Guilt Isolation Responsibility Self-Reflection Classics Contemporary FictionI am not reviewing the story as I haven’t read it yet but I’m so disappointed in the book. I bought this under the impression that I was getting the black and white cover that is a hallmark of Camus books. That is the book cover image that was shown. I didn’t receive that one but a totally different one.
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Barely more than a hundred pages, "The Fall" represents Albert Camus' ultimate foray into the recesses of psychic anguish. Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a once-respected and successful Paris barrister, sits alone in an Amsterdam bar delivering his stark monologue to an unknown listener. It is a confessional narrative, a tale in which Clamence slowly unravels the spare facts of his life, his deceptions, his inauthenticity, his...
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Aside from being Camus' crowning literary achievement, this work could also be viewed as one of the most important works of twentieth century literatue. It is also perhaps the most representational fictional work in the existensialist genre, far surpassing the work of Sartre. The Fall, aside from being a great work, is a masterful technical achievment, and a lesson in character development and dialogue. The plot...
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This spare and lucid novella is one of Camus' finest. The extended monologue format is intriguing, and the fact that it was a rather nasty send-up of many of the existentialists with whom Camus had had a falling-out was especially marvelous. One is reminded of Dostoevsky's The Underground but, Camus' message is far easier to swallow. La Chute can't help but confirm Camus' brilliance as a writer.
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Soon after publishing The Fall, Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature. On the strength of this book alone, he deserved it. As a novel, The Fall improves upon its two predecessors, The Stranger and The Plague, in almost every way. The writing itself is much more confident, full of scathing wit and eloquent outrage. The intertwining of artistic aim and philosophical conviction is utterly seamless. Neither...
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