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A review by shimmery
The Fall by Albert Camus
2.0
The back of this edition promises ‘The Fall’ is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has lost his innocence and glimpsed the emptiness of his life, yet is happy to die.’
I’m sorry to be such a heathen but I didn’t find this book brilliant. There were some really nice descriptions of Amsterdam, where the novel is set, but the rest of it, all the narrator’s musings and confessions, seemed overly cynical and self important to me — the sort of stuff that if it was written by a 17 year old girl people would roll their eyes at but coming from a 40 year old man is deemed somehow profound.
I’m sorry to be such a heathen but I didn’t find this book brilliant. There were some really nice descriptions of Amsterdam, where the novel is set, but the rest of it, all the narrator’s musings and confessions, seemed overly cynical and self important to me — the sort of stuff that if it was written by a 17 year old girl people would roll their eyes at but coming from a 40 year old man is deemed somehow profound.