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The fall / translated from the French by Justin O'Brien.
LIBRA - Special PQ2605.A3734 C5 1956a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.
- Series:
- Vintage book ; V-223.
- Vintage Books, V223
- Standardized Title:
- Chute. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--Translations into English.
- French literature.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 147 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1956.
- Summary:
- "In a shady bar in Amsterdam, the man who does the talking in The Fall is indulging in a calculated confession. He recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer, a pleader of noble causes, secure in his self-esteem, privately a libertine, yet apparently immune to judgment--the portrait of a modern Man. The irony of the recital predicts the downfall. Inescapable, it comes in the narrator's intense discovery, in the space of one terrible and unforgettable instant, that no man is innocent and no man may therefore judge others from a standpoint of righteousness"--Page 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- Translation of La Chute.
- OCLC:
- 492604
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