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An edition of A Queda (1917)

The Fall

a novel

  • 3.57 ·
  • 42 Ratings
  • 270 Want to read
  • 18 Currently reading
  • 57 Have read

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, mortandt, brilliant with aphorism and paradox.

In a shady bar in Amsterdam, the man who does the talking in The Fall is indulging ina 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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Vintage Books
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English
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147

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2023, Penguin Books, Limited
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2022, Raig verd
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2017, Independently Published
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2008, Gallimard
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2008, Bompiani
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1956, Gallimard
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Edition Notes

Translation of: La chute

Published in
New York [N.Y.]
Series
A Vintage book -- V-223.
Copyright Date
1956
Translation Of
Chute
Translated From
French

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
147 p. ;
Number of pages
147

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL14457584M
Internet Archive
fall0000unse_a7b4
OCLC/WorldCat
18195105, 492604
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43277335

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First Sentence

"MAY 1, monsieur, offer my services without running the risk of intruding?"

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Num bar de marinheiros em Amesterdão, um homem que se apresenta como juiz-penitente enceta conversa com um desconhecido. Entre copos de Genebra e deambulações pelas ruas daquela cidade de canais concêntricos, a fazer lembrar os círculos do inferno, recorda a sua vida passada como respeitável advogado parisiense, insuperável na defesa de causas nobres e nas conquistas amorosas. Mas à medida que a confissão se desenrola as ambiguidades acumulam-se, os motivos ocultos revelam-se, os triunfos desabam.

Narrativa mordaz, de uma ironia brilhante, A Queda descreve uma viagem de decadência até às mais obscuras infâmias do homem moderno. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1956, foi o último livro de ficção lançado em vida por Albert Camus.

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