num_pages: 147
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: 20th Century, Philosophy, Nobel Prize, French Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 99042
places: Paris, Amsterdam
publisher: Vintage Books