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- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016
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The Fall by Albert Camus, which tells the story of a French defence lawyer who, disgusted with the vanity, cowardice and selfishness of his life in Paris, goes to Amsterdam to serve as a “judge-penitent”. Following on from the author’s earlier novels
The Stranger and
The Plague,
The Fall explores and develops the concept of the absurd, resulting in a thought-provoking work which illustrates the author’s belief in the ultimate meaninglessness of life. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus was one of the most influential writers and philosophers of the 20th century.
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Albert Camus
French writer, playwright, essayist and philosopher
Born in Mondovi (Algeria) in 1913Died in Villeblevin in 1960Notable works:The Stranger (1942), novelThe Myth of Sisyphus (1942), essayThe Plague (1947), novelThe Algerian-born French author Albert Camus (1913-1960) is a Nobel Laureate and one of the major writers of the 20th century. A deeply committed intellectual, philosopher, journalist, playwright and novelist, his reflections on the absurd, which he expressed in a nuanced, sensitive and humane way, proved very influential during his time.
Widely admired but sometimes criticised, Camus made a considerable impact across the world with his novels The Plague (1947) and especially The Stranger (1942). He met an untimely death following a car accident in 1960.
The Fall
Guilt in the world of the absurd
Genre: novelReference edition: Camus, A. (1957) The Fall. Trans. O’Brien, J. New York: Knopf.First edition: 1956Themes: guilt, selfishness, duplicity, human nature, declineFirst published in 1956, The Fall is the third and final part of the trilogy which began with The Stranger and The Plague.
The Fall is the confession of Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a French former lawyer who has gone to seek refuge in the mists of Amsterdam. In a long monologue, the narrator recounts his life in Paris, which was filled with glory, conquests and fine speeches, until the day he was crossing a bridge in the dead of night and failed to help a drowning woman. This was the start of a wake-up call for him, and as a result of this he cannot help but condemn the old life that he loved so much, made up, like all lives in his time, of selfishness, cowardice and vanity.
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The Fall
