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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. The Fall (1956) is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence. But beyond depicting one man's disillusionment, Camus's novel exposes the universal human condition and its absurdities - for our innocence that, once lost, can never be recaptured ...
Albert Camus (1913-60) is the author of a number of best-selling and highly influential works, all of which are published by Penguin. They include The Fall, The Outsider and The First Man. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Camus is remembered as one of the few writers to have shaped the intellectual climate of post-war France, but beyond that, his fame has been international.
If you enjoyed The Fall, you might like Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'An irresistibly brilliant examination of modern conscience'
The New York Times
'Camus is the accused, his own prosecutor and advocate. The Fall might have been called "The Last Judgement" '
Olivier Todd
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J'ai lu ceci en deux ou trois jours seulement. Plutôt facile à lire et à assimiler puisque ça parle de nature humaine divorcée de tout mensonge et prétention. La majorité des êtres humains, par contre, sont incapables de parler de leurs vies et de leurs désirs de la manière avec laquelle le protagonistes mene son monologue de vérité plutôt brutale. On est même incapable de regarder en face certains aspects en nous qui seront mal vu en public, et par conséquence on essaye de les repousser au plus profond de nous, les oubliant entièrement par fois. Il y'a certainement plusieurs manières de lire cette œuvre, mais pour moi c'est la manière que je trouve la plus intéressante au moins pour l'instant.
An breathtaking book that exposés human's duplicity and vices. It's the number one book to read in order to understand Camus's philosophy