The other day I was chatting with my excellent friend Sanford Zale, and asked him if I my belief that Albert Camus's The Fall is a better novel than The Stranger was a mark of my lack of cultish sophistication. Happily, he validated my theory. It's not that I didn't like The Stranger, because I did, but I do think The Fall is better. I'm in the middle of a bit of Camus run lately, having read The Plague during this year of reading all sorts of stuff. I finally got around to reading The Fall after my latest listen to Charles Mathewes's Why Evil Exist Great Course. Professor Mathewes goes into a fascinating deep dive in regards to what The Plague and The Fall tell us about Camus's concept of evil, and I'm glad that he convinced me to follow through on reading a book that I've been putting off for way too long. Highly recommended.
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