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The Fall by Robin Buss, Robin Buss, Albert Camus

ISBN: 9780141187945
Release Date: 06 Jul 2006
Average rating: (read by 19 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

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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	ajk77
	Rated it 2 months ago

I was recently reminded of this when reading 'the Reluctant Fundamentalist' which uses a not dissimilar narrative device but to better effect.

	AyannaBrewer
	Rated it 1 years ago

I liked this book

	dadogleg
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