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The fall

A man recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer until his predicted downfall, in one terrible instant.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 (Author)
Other Authors:	O'Brien, Justin, 1906-1968 (Translator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English French
Published:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Existentialism > Fiction. Philosophy > Fiction. Amsterdam (Netherlands) > Fiction. Paris (France) > Fiction. Psychological fiction. Didactic fiction. Philosophical fiction.
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Summary:	A man recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer until his predicted downfall, in one terrible instant.
Item Description:	"A Borzoi book" English translation of: La chute.
Physical Description:	147 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:	9780679720225 0679720227 9780394702230 0394702239
Author Notes:	Born in 1913 in Algeria, Albert Camus was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was deeply affected by the plight of the French during the Nazi occupation of World War II, who were subject to the military's arbitrary whims. He explored the existential human condition in such works as L'Etranger (The Outsider, 1942) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942), which propagated the philosophical notion of the "absurd" that was being given dramatic expression by other Theatre of the Absurd dramatists of the 1950s and 1960s. Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960. (Bowker Author Biography)