![]() It will have a purely intellectual appeal- its implications as well as its references and its analogies are recondite. It does not constitute a novel, but rather a metaphysical search in a barely fictional form. ![]() His progress is both fantastic and quite logical, both full of suspense and paradox. He records his change from a most worthy defender of widows and orphans and other "noble" causes, and from a lover of the good things in life, to an associate of thieves, murderers and panderers in the dive where he now makes his headquarters, devoting himself to the conversion of others to his view of life. "The Fall" is of course the fall of the angels, recorded satanically by Jean-Baptiste Clemence, a former Parts lawyer now following the self-invented vocation of judge- penitent in Amsterdam. ![]() ![]() An utterly fascinating book that might with half-truth be called a novel, or a monologue, or a character sketch, but which is largely a philosophical thesis, and inquiry- bristling with wit. ![]()
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