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The Fall
  • Published: 11 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141187945
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $24.99
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The Fall

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Paperback
29 Sept 2020
Paperback
11 Aug 2006
Hardback
5 Sept 2023
EBook
6 Mar 2014
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New translation by Robin Buss

Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights 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 - and our innocence that, once lost, can never be recaptured ...
  • Published: 11 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141187945
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man, appeared posthumously.

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