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The Fall
The Fall
Author: Albert Camus
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, mordant, brilliant with aphorism and paradox. In a shady bar in Amsterdam, the man who does the talking in The Fa...  more »
ISBN: 319221
Publication Date: 1956
Pages: 150
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Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Score one more for the Nobel Prize winners. In this obviously intellectual novel a once lawyer, boozing it up in a sleazy bar (lassomoir), wearies an affable patron with his lifes story, as well as his philosophy of justice. He is certain to bore the average reader as well. His triumphs give way to failure. His boastfulness of a stalwart career ends with a profession of a sham of justice. Why them does his listener put up with this? The last page will expose the truth. Unless you are writing a dissertation on Camus, you will never miss having skipped this one.
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Great monologue about the fall of man!!!


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