Monday, October 24, 2005

Don't believe everything you read


It is official: For 21 years I have been searching for a book that I could call "my favorite book". At last my search can cease; I have found it: LA CHUTE, de Camus. ('The Fall' for all English speakers.) It is the most complicated, enigmatic piece of French Literature that I have ever read. It is simply beautiful in its complexity and truthfulness. The monologue/discourse/conversational style in which it is written is fab.!
It is about Europe, Algeria, life, death, speech, action, ideals, religion, philosophy, guilt and innocence, the holocaust, everything and nothing, all at the same time.

Please read this book if you ever get the chance.

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