All Who Wander: "The Fall" by Albert Camus

(Throughout 2014, CCLaP cultural essayist Madeleine Maccar is looking at the classic definition of the "hero's journey," as seen through a series of international texts that she is reading in English translation. For all the essays in this series, please click here.)



The Fall
By Albert Camus
Vintage International
Review by Madeleine Maccar

There is a degree of self-aware humility I've come to expect from my heroes that Albert Camus's Jean-Baptiste Clamence doesn't immediately personify in his firs...