The Fall (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Albert Camus
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1950’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Memory, Philosophy or philosophers, Paris, Reality, Lawyers, Existentialism, Netherlands or Dutch people, Split personalities, Laughter
- Locales: Paris, France, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Places Discussed
*Amsterdam. Capital city of the Netherlands; at thirteen feet below sea level, it has the lowest elevation of any capital in the world. Its concentric canals are likened by Jean- Baptiste Clamence to the circles of Hell in Dante’s Inferno (c. 1320; English translation, 1802). Its Zuider Zee is called by him almost a dead sea. He lives in the Jewish section and preaches in a bar, which he calls his church. Amsterdam, in this way, lends itself to various Judeo-Christian references, which include his own name, a pseudonym meaning “John the Baptist,...
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