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An edition of A Queda (1917)

The Fall

1st Vintage international ed.

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.60 ·
  • 43 Ratings
  • 281 Want to read
  • 18 Currently reading
  • 58 Have read

Mordant, brilliant, elegantly styled, The Fall is a novel Of the conscience Of modern man in the face of evil. In a seedy bar in Amsterdam, Clamence. an expatriate Frenchman, indulges in a calculated confession. He recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer, a champion of noble causes, and, privately, a libertine—yet one apparently immune to judgment. As his narrative unfolds, ambiguities amass; every triumph reveals a failure, every motive a hidden treachery. The irony of his recital anticipates his downfall — and implicates us all.

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Vintage International
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
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Jean-Baptiste Clamence
Places
Paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Paris, France, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Times
20th century, Siglo XX

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The Fall
1991-03, Vintage International
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Cover of: La chute
La chute
1988-02, Rowohlt
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La chute
1977-08-08, Gallimard
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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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La chute
1966, Gallimard
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La chute
1965, Prentice-Hall
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The Fall
1964-08, Alfred A. Knopf
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The Fall
1963, Penguin Books
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1958, Gallimard
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Translation of: La chute.
"First published in the U.S. by Alfred A. Knopf in 1956"--T.p. verso.

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Series
Vintage international
Copyright Date
1984

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Dewey Decimal Class
843/.914
Library of Congress
PQ2605.A3734 C513 1991, PQ2605.A3734C513

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Paperback
Pagination
147 p. ;
Number of pages
147

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OL1888948M
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0679720227
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9780679720225
LCCN
90050475
OCLC/WorldCat
1054958810, 22661871
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8482
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60868577

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"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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