A review by goldripred
The Fall by Albert Camus

5.0

The best Camus book I've read. So this book is about a lawyer who lives at the height of his powers. He has a super inflated ego and does not engage in any self reflection until the moment when he crosses the Seine and hears a girl jump into the river. He walks away and says oops its too late and too far. That incident plagues him and is the impetus for his entire flagellation of himself where he examines all of his actions under a lens of being a terrible person.
It's very interesting and as the reader you have to examine yourself until the end when you're shaken awake from your reveries by realizing that the lawyer is manipulating you and your emotions.