An edition of La Chute (1917)

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An edition of La Chute (1917)

The Fall

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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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Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
147

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Subjects

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), Readers

People

Jean-Baptiste Clamence

Places

Paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Times

20th century, Siglo XX

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1988-02, Rowohlt
paperback in German
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La chute
1977-08-08, Gallimard
Paperback in French
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The Fall
1973, Alfred A. Knopf
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The Fall
/1970, Vintage Books
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La chute
1968, Gallimard
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Cover of: La chute
La chute
1966, Gallimard
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Cover of: La chute
La chute
1965, Prentice-Hall
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Cover of: The Fall
The Fall
1964-08, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - Thirteenth printing
Cover of: The Fall
The Fall
1963, Penguin Books
paperback in English
Cover of: La chute
La chute
1958, Gallimard
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Edition Notes

"V-223."--Spine.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1957.

Translation of: La chute.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1956

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.C1574 Fal, PQ2605 A3734 C513 1957 Fal

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
147 p. ;
Number of pages
147

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL18331991M
Internet Archive
fallnovel00camu
ISBN 10
0394702239
ISBN 13
9780394702230
LCCN
57005652
OCLC/WorldCat
896726611, 87845267, 1998, 338497
Library Thing
8482
Goodreads
43668993

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1230631W

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First Sentence

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

Work Description

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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