
The Fall
Original title: La chute
English title: The Fall
Publication date: 1956
Publication place: France
Publisher: Gallimard
Translator: Justin O’Brien (1957)
Media type: Print
Genre: Philosophical novel
Originally intended to be included in The Exile and the Kingdom, The Fall took on a life of its own and Camus decided to publish it as a standalone novel.
Widely considered a masterpiece, The Fall tells the intriguing story of Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a self-proclaimed ‘judge-penitent’, in the form of a series of monologues as he speaks to a stranger in Amsterdam.