Jean_baptiste_clamence

Long-form essay on Camus’s The Fall—the same piece as under Reviews, listed here as an essay.

Also available as a long essay. The Fall- An Account of Modernity by John the Baptist There is always a space between the thoughts in a writer’s head and those that the reader is receptive to, yet when it came to The Fall, I found that space to be incredibly small. Camus boils down modernity to one thing: “judgement”. This unique framework for viewing our image of self and relation to others illuminates what otherwise would appear to be simple self-aggrandizement with a desperate attempt to avoid the Last Judgement. ...