La Chute by Albert Camus is ranked 768th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, where The Stranger is at 22, but the latter is Number One on the Le Monde’s Top 100 Novels – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where the macaws steal the show

 

La Chute by Albert Camus is ranked 768th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, where The Stranger is at 22, but the latter is Number One on the Le Monde’s Top 100 Novels – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where the macaws steal the show

 

8 out of 10

 

L’Etranger https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/letranger-by-albert-camus-10-out-of-10.html is one of the Greatest Books of All Time, indeed, the GOAT site has it at 22, while Le Monde has this chef d’oeuvre at Number One on its Top 100 Best Novels, it is one of my Top 50 Favorites, with its astounding start:

 

“Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas. J'ai reçu un télégramme de l’asile: « Mère décédée. Enterrement demain. Sentiments distingués. » Cela ne veut rien dire. C'était peut-être hier.” Nevertheless, there are some impressive passages in La Chute as well, though it is not on the same level

It made me think of Sophie’s Choice when we have a Nazi officer demand that the mother choses which of her children would die, actually, I am wondering if William Styron has not taken his inspiration from Albert Camus – the ‘action’ takes place in Amsterdam, though we are in fact looking at thoughts, memories…no thriller here

 

In fact, Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html dismissed what he called The Outsider – L’Etranger may have been translated like that, for some editions – as ‘piss’, but he was very hard on a great number of authors, from Virginia Woolf to Vladimir Nabokov

I have sent a few lines describing La Chute to my daughter, Hannah, who lives in Amsterdam: “Have you noticed that Amsterdam's concentric canals resemble the circles of hell? The middle-class hell, of course, peopled with bad dreams. When one comes from the outside, as one gradually goes through those circles, life — and hence its crimes — becomes denser, darker. Here, we are in the last circle’ I meant it as a joke

 

I hope there is no actual resemblance, though the point is in the title – The Fall of humanity – they see a former Jewish area, which was vacuumed by the Nazis, The Fall was connected with Dante https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-inferno-by-dante-aligheri.html - I am amazed at people who swallow conspiracy theories

Take this fella I meet at the gym downtown, he used to be a ‘commissioner’, the equivalent of a colonel, retired, but getting a fat pension, and another salary from…the state, quite appalling, and then one day, he tells me the Holocaust was ‘fake’, alas, he is not the only one with such monstrous ideas, they seem sane, but they are not

 

Evidently, the most infamous peddlers of such ‘theories’ is the Orange Monkey https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/fire-and-fury-inside-trump-white-house.html obsessed with the 2020 election he ‘won’, proof that the once free world has a fool next to the nuclear button, what a disgrace and a…Fall

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