{"id":488,"date":"2012-12-19T13:15:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T00:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=488"},"modified":"2021-09-22T20:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:06:17","slug":"the-fall-albert-camus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2012\/12\/19\/the-fall-albert-camus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall &#8212; Albert Camus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679720227\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0679720227&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thunderguycom-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/the-fall.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Fall\" width=\"324\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/the-fall.jpg 324w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/the-fall-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thunderguycom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0679720227\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\"\/>This short, intense monologue offers an unblinking view of the hypocrisy at the root of all human existence. Its protagonist is perhaps the most genuinely cynical character I have ever come across.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian called <cite>The Fall<\/cite> &#8220;the most perfect of his meditations on human isolation and bewilderment before an enigmatic universe.&#8221; Yet for all that, I really enjoyed it. It even made me laugh in some places. Well, smile at least. Grimly.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short, intense monologue offers an unblinking view of the hypocrisy at the root of all human existence. Its protagonist is perhaps the most genuinely cynical character I have ever come across. The Guardian called The Fall &#8220;the most perfect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2012\/12\/19\/the-fall-albert-camus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[203,4,112,63],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-albert-camus","tag-books","tag-existentialism","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4113,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/4113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}