The Fall
By: translated from the French by Justin O'Brien
Contributors: O'Brien, Justin, 1906-1968
Series: Vintage Books -- V223
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1956
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: La chute
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 147
Copyright date: 1956
Work titles: Chute
Description: Albert Camus, in his first work of fiction after The Plague, chose a subject eminently worthy of his supreme gifts: the conscience of modern man in the face of evil. Masterful in style and form, the narrative of The Fall is at once elegant, mortandt, brilliant with aphorism and paradox.

In a shady bar in Amsterdam, the man who does the talking in The Fall is indulging ina calculated confession. he recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer, a pleader of noble causes, secure in his self-esteem, privately a libertine, yet apparently immune to judgement - the portrait of a modern Man. The irony of the recital predicts the downfall. Inescapable, it comes in the narrator's intense discovery, in the space of one terrible and unforgettable instant, that no man is innocent and no man may therefore judge others from a standpoint of righteousness.

Albert Camus in The Fall created a magnificent work, here superbly translated by Justin O'Brien, which secured its author's place as a great moralist as well as a great writer of our time.

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