num_pages: 128
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.
language: English
title: The Fall
titlecomplete: The Fall
characters: Jean-Baptiste Clamence
genres: Classics, France, Philosophy, Nobel Prize, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, French Literature, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 99089
places: Amsterdam, Paris
publisher: Penguin Books