The Fall
by Albert Camus
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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.
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Conscience, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Existentialism, Fiction, psychological, French fiction, French language, French literature, Legal stories, literary fiction, nobel prize winner, Novela francesa, Philosophy, Romance literature, Social ethics, Translations into English, Fiction, psychological, La chute (Camus), ReadersPeople
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Edition Notes
"V-223."--Spine.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1957.
Translation of: La chute.
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"MAY 1, monsieur, offer my services without running the risk of intruding?"
Work 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.
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Novels (La chute / L'Étranger)
Oeuvres complètes d'Albert Camus: IV
Sixteen Short Novels
Works (La chute / L'exil et le royaume)
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