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The fall ([New ed.])

Camus, AlbertTodd, Olivier(Introduction by)O'Brien, Justin(Translated by)
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'Have you noticed that Amsterdam's concentric circles resemble the circles of hell?' Jean-Baptiste Clamence addresses a chance acquaintance in an Amsterdam bar.

A successful Parisian Barrister - the epitome of good citizenship and decent behaviour - he has come to realise the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His brilliant and discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, our own complacency.

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Penguin Classics
0141182024 / 9780141182025
Paperback
843.912
27/04/2000
England
English
Foreign
xxi, 107p.
20 cm
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Previous ed.: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957.