The Fall (Penguin Modern Classics)

The Fall (Penguin Modern Classics)

Softcover
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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.
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Softcover
Pages
96
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7.49 €

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"[...]So if you were to arrest me, that would be a good start. Then perhaps they'd take care of the rest; for instance, they might guillotine me, I wouldn't be afraid of dying any longer, I'd be saved. And you could lift my newly severed head above the crowd, so that they could recognize themselves in it and I would dominate them once more, as an example to them. All would be consummated: unseen, unknown, I should have finished my career as a false prophet crying in the desert and refusing to come forth.[...]"

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