The Fall

in one of his next books the fall the characters trying to find meaning or better put trying to find someone to take the place of God that can forgive them of their sins again is I think this is a huge problem for agnostics and atheists when we do something that's bad we don't have this omnipotent all forgiving father figure to take that away from us like we have to live with it

Camus, I'll tell you about Camus. Yeah and he wrote The Fall in which he Christ allows himself to be crucified out of the guilt that he feels at not having been one of the innocents.

The actual title of the book, The Fall, is a reference to the fall of humanity in the Garden of Eden.

The main character in one of his final books called The Fall, a book released just a couple years before he died in a car accident when he was clearly about to head into a new direction with his work, the main character of The Fall in many ways can be seen as a great example of what not to do as someone creating a system of meaning.

Clemence sits in a bar in the deepest circle of hell, telling strangers the story of his fall.

for anyone who is alone without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style.

irresponsibility is grace

This, of course, is the plot of Albert Camus' The Fall,

his haunting 1956 novel about a Paris defense lawyer's fall from grace.

Have you read Camus the Fall?

It opens with the story. The guy is walking along the streets of Amsterdam and he hears someone go into the water whether it's a fall or a suicide and he convinces himself that he doesn't hear it, right? That oh, it was nothing. But he comes to find out that someone did die because of his indifference or the rationalization in his head. And basically the rest of the novel he's sort of haunted by this idea.