The Fall

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

20th century · Amsterdam · Conscience · Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) · Existentialism · Existentialisme · Fiction · Fiction, psychological · French fiction · French language · French literature · French Novelists · Jean-Baptiste Clamence · La chute (Camus) · Legal stories · Literary Fiction · nobel prize winner · nouvelles · Novela francesa · Paris · Philosophy · Psychological · Readers · Roman français · Romance literature · Romans · Siglo XX · Social ethics · The Netherlands · Translations into English