The hero of Albert Camus’s novel “The Fall” Jean-Baptiste Clamence becomes a “judge-penitent”, who declares his peculiar philosophy of guilt. Therefore, none of collective members can no longer be presumed innocent or to believe that he / she could avoid the guilt. However, guilt is also attributed to collective as a common feature of its workings. Firstly and mostly, an individual is declared to be “the guilty” when he / she does not accomplish the duties, which are collectively meaningful. Also the level of the interiorization of guilt varies from its acceptance to avoidance. Although the structure of guilt is common, every metamorphosis forms the variable modes of its experience and perception. It involves four different types of metamorphoses: innocence or unconscious guilt feeling guilt for somebody / something transgression initial or general guilt. The experience of guilt, which is depicted in the chosen novels, is analysed both as the process and the result. These metamorphoses change one another until the final result is available, i.e. In this paper, guilt is interpreted as the polysemantic and multiple phenomenon consisting of the separate, but together related phases, also known as metamorphoses. Baudrillard’s sociological and philosophical conceptions, and the comparative thematology, which unifies the separate parts of the present research. The methodology of the Master’s thesis is based on M. The representation of the phenomenon of guilt in Albert Camus’s novel “The Fall” (1956) and Antanas Škėma’s novel “The White Shroud” (1958) is analysed using the approach of the relation between individual and collective. The Metamorphoses of Guilt in Albert Camus‘s Novel „The Fall“ and Antanas Škėma‘s Novel „The White Shroud“

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