LA SYMBOLIQUE DU MIROIR ET LE MOI IRONIQUE DANS LA CHUTE DE CAMUS
SYMBOLISM AND THE CONCEPT OF IRONY IN CAMUS’ LA CHUTE

Summary/Abstract: Until today, many sociological, political, existential, stylistic and psychoanalytic studies have been carried out on the works of Camus. In contrast, two essential characteristics have often been ignored by the researchers: the irony and its issues. The thing what Camus used to get even with his enemies, maybe more with himself having the role of a highly developed weapon was the ambiguity of this cynic style? Can this cynic style be against the writer? How and why the micro theme as a 'mirror' can become the main axis of a narrative? The mirror can turn into an inevitable tool to reveal cynic “me” and the absurdities of this world? Can the language be conceived as a mirror? How does the aquatic mirror effect the organization of the story? How does the cynic “me” appear in the character of Clamence? What were the preferred techniques of the writer who likes to turn everything into ridiculous? In that case, many ridiculous situations appear in the works of Camus? In effect, the mirror by means of metaphor seems to play a role of a catalyst for Camus. The mirror provides the creation of a real narrative by gradually becoming the center of a network of images and themes. Thus, this multiple meaning theme obtains many aesthetic, narratives, psychoanalytical and philosophical values at the same time. In our study, all of these questions are tried to be answered and thanks to this, Camus’s underestimated ironic language is also highlighted.

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