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July 15,2025
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A soul once said that Camy is getting married. And I can't help but agree.

This news might come as a surprise to many. Camy, a person with her own charm and story.

As those who read this will surely be shocked and might even drop their jaws.

We don't know much about the details of her marriage, but the fact that it's happening is already making waves.

Maybe this is a new chapter in her life, filled with love and happiness.

Or perhaps there are hidden secrets and dramas yet to unfold.

Only time will tell what lies ahead for Camy and her future spouse.

But one thing is for sure, this announcement has caught our attention and we'll be eagerly waiting to see what happens next.

July 15,2025
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In my opinion, the book "Falling" is a description of the state of the fall of dignity.

It describes the state of human alienation, non-being, and appearance.

In a part of the book, we read:

"Oh, these lowlifes, actors, and empty people, and with all these influential...".

Truly, oh these actors, in our lives we have had and still have a lot to do with these lowlifes.

Kafka, in the first part of this work, portrays his thoughts, beliefs, and even his condemnation of himself in the past, from regrets and beliefs that were wrong.

In a part of the book, Kafka refers to the inability to establish equality, which I took as a kind of objection to communism, and even the main character of our story is unable to establish this equality, which I also attributed to Kafka's membership in the Communist Party to some extent:

"In prison, other political and religious groups were formed, each working for the benefit of their comrades. I too was forced to provide facilities for my comrades, which was in the rule of discrimination. But among ourselves, I could not establish complete equality."

The writer awakens the spiritual baseness and human realities and refers to the things that humans have confessed to in the past with power (such as theft, etc.) and sees the state of society in the same way, and others have given another name to theft and have somehow cleansed the sin of this name, but they have only become better actors and have shaped themselves with the new conditions.

When reading the book, the writer forces you to think, and among the monologues, the narrator asks interesting questions of his reader-addressee and emphasizes in the following pages that you should think about them and explain them. In my opinion, Kafka invites the reader to think and philosophy with this method.

It can be boldly said that the most shocking part of the book for me was the suicide of the young woman from the bridge. This scene is described so masterfully that when reading it, I saw this scene in my imagination like a picture on a monitor: the sound of Jean-Baptiste's footsteps next to the little girl while she has a smile on her lips, staggering towards the young girl and hesitation for a few seconds, ignoring the little girl and passing by her, and suddenly "splash", the sound of her slender body hitting the water surface, the slowing down of Jean-Baptiste's feet, the sound of a scream that is carried away by the water current...

A painful and touching scene.

Kafka often refers to suicide but does not glorify it and emphasizes the point that one must live and take revenge on this life. Although life is empty and meaningless, it has the value of existence, and this emptiness gives it a certain charm.
July 15,2025
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I have reached the conclusion that I will never be capable of writing impressions on every single book I have read. But I can give it a try, at least.

I read "The Fall" - twice in succession, many, many years ago.

Camus here replicates his meticulous approach from "The Stranger", yet in a much more analytical form, laying a subtle trap for the reader, into which it is nearly impossible not to fall.

And you do fall, and fall again, for that is perhaps why it is named "The Fall" after all.

If you find yourself within Camus' confession, it implies that you are honest with yourself, ready to gaze into the depths of your being and accept that you are merely a little monster fixated on your own good and pleasure, that you are righteous only to look in the mirror and feel proud of yourself, that you strive for admiration, respect, and affection, and once you obtain them - you are willing to discard them, for you don't care about anyone or anything.

If you don't see yourself within the pages of Camus, I assure you that you have already slipped into the trap, feeling superior and special precisely because you're not a miserable person.

Camus' demonstration leaves no room for contradictions. We could be miserable, selfish individuals, doing good out of vanity, being altruistic because we are weak and reliant on the image in the eyes of others. We are doomed to be human, to bear the burden of all misery, and yet to endure ourselves and others as well.

Anyway, as Camus aptly states, "it's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately!"

Why "fortunately"? Because he acknowledges the futility in the pursuit of a salvation or redemption that is always out of reach. This "fortunately" - suggests a paradoxical comfort in admitting that it is too late for such ideals, liberating one from the burden of attempting to achieve an unachievable perfection. It is a recognition of the human condition, where the acceptance of one's limitations leads to a form of existential liberation.

Forgiving yourself for being human, for being obsessed with superiority - would be the genuine challenge. Perhaps this is the key to the novel, this "crack" in the character, who宣称 that he loves himself, while the entire confession (the whole book is a confession) - is a demonstration of the fact that he hates himself and cannot forgive himself.

However, Camus still appears to have faith in humanity.

"The Fall" - is evidently an awkward novel - and I say this due to its one-sided conversation format, which can be disorienting as it blurs the lines between dialogue and monologue, and between the personal and the universal - but an absolutely essential one. Rereading the passages whenever I wanted to write about it, I rather experienced the feeling of a sublime elevation.

Because once human nature is admitted and forgiven, once the "fall" is lived through and understood, it sets us free, and there is no other direction but upwards.
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