Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141187945 Number of pages: 96 Weight: 78 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 5 mm You may also be interested in. The Fall might have been called 'The Last Judgement' ' 'Camus is the accused, his own prosecutor and advocate. 'An irresistibly brilliant examination of modern conscience' If you enjoyed The Fall, you might like Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 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. They include The Fall, The Outsider and The First Man. Īlbert Camus (1913-60) is the author of a number of best-selling and highly influential works, all of which are published by Penguin. 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.

The Fall (1956) is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. Camus’s work deals with absurdism, the philosophical stance that life has no higher meaning.

It is the last novel Camus published before his death in 1960. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. The Fall (French: La Chute) is a 1956 novel by French author and philosopher Albert Camus, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year. Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his novels, Albert Camus' The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics.

The Fall by Albert Camus