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3410683 No.3410683 [Reply] [Original]

Can anyone explain The Fall to me? I've read a few other works by Camus(The Stranger, The Plague, and the Myth of Sisyphus) and feel like I have a pretty firm grasping of absurdism, but I think this book went a bit over my head. Unless of course, following his ideas of the absurd, Camus purposely made this book overly purposeless and it has no 'deeper' meaning.

>> No.3410706

bump

>> No.3410729

>Can anyone explain The Fall to me?
He falls.

>> No.3410764

>>3410729
More specific..?

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>>3410683
5 seconds ago I just finished the third part. Focus on the perfect life the character had, and how (like in Calígula) the absurd is revealed to him trough happiness. Try to read each paragraph twice, and then, while you see Camus self-portrayed, you'll understand what to do in order to keep on living and to be truly happy by understanding how existence works

>> No.3410775

>>3410764
I never read the book, actually.

>> No.3410789

>>3410770
Thank you. I asked my European history teacher(who's usually a pretty intelligent guy) on what he took from this book since he majored in Philo and wrote his end thesis on Camus, but he said he wasn't really sure what it was supposed to mean either. But then again, he always says that as to encourage self-thinking and help students think for themselves. Its just been bugging me ever since I read it a couple of months ago.