A Estética da Culpa e a Sombra da Tradição: Notas para a análise de A queda, de Albert Camus

Abstract

This text intends to do an introduction to the Albert Camus’ The fall, counting on the considerations that Jacquéline Lévi-Valensi and Anne Coudreuse, two specialists in this title, have brought up. Written in the post-war first years, The Fall is a hybrid monologue subdivided into theater’s mise en scene, romantic anecdotes and moral maxims. This structure is completely appropriate to its ideological propose of critic that searches to contest the traditional discourses, showing the decadence of the language’s sense. The human value’s crisis reflect in the protagonist by his hypocrisy — oscillating between badness and culpability — that makes him to divide himself in double confessions that are also accusations. Indirectly, this posture refer to the baudelairian’s intertext that, through his laugh’s concept, is able to do a universal judgment denounce synthesis.