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The Fall
a novel
by Albert Camus
- 9 Ratings
- 38 Want to read
- 3 Currently reading
- 14 Have read
This edition was published in 1956 by Vintage Books in New York, USA.
Written in English
— 147 pages
Albert Camus, in his first work of fiction after The Plague, chose a subject eminently worthy of his supreme gifts: the conscience of modern man in the face of evil. Masterful in style and form, the narrative of The Fall is at once elegant, mordandt, brilliant with aphorism and paradox.
In a shady bar in Amsterdam, the man who does the talking in The Fall is indulging in a calculated confession. he recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer, a pleader of noble causes, secure in his self-esteem, privately a libertine, yet apparently immune to judgement - the portrait of a modern Man. The irony of the recital predicts the downfall. Inescapable, it comes in the narrator's intense discovery, in the space of one terrible and unforgettable instant, that no man is innocent and no man may therefore judge others from a standpoint of righteousness.
Albert Camus in The Fall created a magnificent work, here superbly translated by Justin O'Brien, which secured its author's place as a great moralist as well as a great writer of our time.
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literary fiction, nobel prize winner, French language, French language readers, Fiction, French fiction, French literature, Translations into English, Existentialism, Philosophy, Novela francesa, Readers, Conscience, Social ethics, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychologicalPreviews available in: English French / français
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La chute
First published in 1917
Subjects
literary fiction, nobel prize winner, French language, French language readers, Fiction, French fiction, French literature, Translations into English, Existentialism, Philosophy, Novela francesa, Readers, Conscience, Social ethics, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychologicalPeople
Jean-Baptiste ClamencePlaces
Paris, France, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsTimes
20th century, Siglo XXWork Description
La Chute est un court roman1 d'Albert Camus publié à Paris chez Gallimard en 1956, découpé en six parties non numérotées. Camus y écrit la confession d'un homme à un autre, rencontré dans un bar d'Amsterdam. Le roman devait primitivement être intégré au recueil L'Exil et le Royaume qui sera publié en 1957 et qui constitue la dernière œuvre « littéraire » publiée par Camus.
La particularité de ce roman tient au fait que l'homme qui se confesse est le seul à parler, durant tout l'ouvrage. Le choix de cette focalisation, qu'on trouvait déjà, 14 ans plus tôt, dans L'Étranger, implique que le lecteur ne dispose d'aucune information extérieure dispensée par un narrateur omniscient. Il se trouve ainsi enfermé dans un point de vue unique, ce qui, dans le cas de ce roman, contribue à établir la situation de « malconfort » par laquelle le héros-auteur se définit lui-même2. L'ambiance très sombre et déshumanisée qui nimbe cette confession contribue également à la singularité de ce récit.
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The Fall
a novel
This edition was published in 1956 by Vintage Books in New York, USA.
Edition Description
Albert Camus, in his first work of fiction after The Plague, chose a subject eminently worthy of his supreme gifts: the conscience of modern man in the face of evil. Masterful in style and form, the narrative of The Fall is at once elegant, mordandt, brilliant with aphorism and paradox.
In a shady bar in Amsterdam, the man who does the talking in The Fall is indulging in a calculated confession. he recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer, a pleader of noble causes, secure in his self-esteem, privately a libertine, yet apparently immune to judgement - the portrait of a modern Man. The irony of the recital predicts the downfall. Inescapable, it comes in the narrator's intense discovery, in the space of one terrible and unforgettable instant, that no man is innocent and no man may therefore judge others from a standpoint of righteousness.
Albert Camus in The Fall created a magnificent work, here superbly translated by Justin O'Brien, which secured its author's place as a great moralist as well as a great writer of our time.
(back cover)
Edition Notes
"V-223."--Spine.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1957.
Translation of: La chute.
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