num_pages: 112
description: Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth.
title: The Fall
titlecomplete: The Fall
characters: Jean-Baptiste Clamence
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, French Literature, Classics, France, Philosophy, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 99072
places: Paris, Amsterdam