Nicholas Peterson
Instructor: Avra Spector
HSS1-M: Freshman Seminar
11-14-14
The Fall of Jean-Baptiste Clamence’s Sanity
The Fall by Albert Camus is a one-ended conversation that creates a unique reading experience for the reader. The only voice during the novel is from a man known as Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a Parisian judge-pennant. Because of this one ended conversation, the reader is left having to come up with the questions the other figures might be asking that the narrator answers. While this becomes a challenge to understand what exactly is going on, it is equally hard to understand the narrator because he is the only one speaking. From the beginning of the novel the reader might assume that our main character, Jean-Baptiste may
