The case

The novel "La chute" represents a masterpiece in the literary work Camus. A successful lawyer becomes a daily a witness, like a young woman the life takes itself, by jumping from a bridge. Instead of helping the woman, the "witness" remains to be stood as angewurzelt at the railing of the bridge, although it hears to ascend from the depth cries from the water: "J'étais penché sur le parapet lorsque j'entendis le cris qui descendait le fleuve, puis s'éteignit brusquement."this passage in the text becomes the key for the understanding of the whole work: The trauma tables experience not to have intervened and not help, although the possibility for it existed, krempelt the life of the successful lawyer of reason on over. A lethargy makes itself broad, slowly in paralysis and it changes to the witness makes for far in the life everyday life his man impossible to stand. It neglects its occupation, roams itself in taverns and bars, loses friends and contacts. The reader becomes for his part a witness of a slow psychological-mental purge, continues to progress always and up to the end one does not overcome. In no other work succeeds so urgently pointing the fatal consequences of a superficial and indifferent life without firm value connections to the author out. It goes pursuing under the skin, which happens, if - the beginning Camus following - the absurd not when lived point of origin is understood and overcome then. "the case" is a book, into each library belonged and a exzellenten entrance to the basic request for philosophy Albert Camus makes possible: To establish in an absurd world humanity on time.