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  1. The Fall (French: La Chute) is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. Set in Amsterdam, The Fall consists of a series of dramatic monologues by the self-proclaimed "judge-penitent" Jean-Baptiste Clamence, as he reflects upon his life to a stranger. In what amounts to a confession ...

    • Albert Camus, Mark Twain
    • 1956
  2. The Fall is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. Set in Amsterdam, The Fall consists of a series of dramatic monologues by the self-proclaimed "judge-penitent" Jean-Baptiste Clamence, as he reflects upon his life to a stranger.

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  3. The Fall, novel by Albert Camus, published in 1956 in French as La Chute. The novel is one of the author’s most brilliant technical achievements. It is set in an Amsterdam bar and consists of a one-sided conversation over the course of several days between an unidentified stranger and Jean-Baptiste.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. The Fall is a 1956 novel by Albert Camus, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year. It is a first-person narrative of Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a judge-penitent who reflects on his life, humanity, and the absurdity of the world.

  5. Oct 11, 2022 · The Fall is a novel by Albert Camus about a former lawyer who confesses his sins and becomes a judge-penitent in Amsterdam. The novel explores existential themes of freedom, guilt, and judgment through the monologues of the speaker, Jean-Baptiste Clamence.

  6. Holland is a dream, monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke—smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole land, around the seas, along the canals.

  7. Feb 5, 2019 · Learn about the plot, themes, and contexts of Camus' second-person novel, in which a fallen lawyer confesses his sins to a mysterious listener. Explore Camus' philosophy of action, his background in drama, and his use of irony and humor in \"The Fall.\"

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