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.