# The Fall

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- Book: [The Fall](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus/the-fall) ([The Fall.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus/the-fall.md))
- Authors: [Albert Camus](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4145-888-4
- Pages: 96
- Published: 2020-07-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, 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 is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence. But beyond depicting one man's disillusionment, Camus' novel exposes the universal human condition and its absurdities - for our innocence that, once lost, can never be recaptured . . .