![]() ![]() ![]() Jean-Baptiste Clamence, the novel’s sole voice, has left Paris, the City of Light, behind and journeyed downward to Dante’s hell. The novel opens in a squalid bar called Mexico City, located somewhere in Amsterdam’s wretched sailors’ quarter. ![]() While The Fall lacks the action found in Camus’s earlier novels The Stranger ( L’étranger) and The Plague ( La peste), it employs the same deceptively simple, journalistic prose and precise language found in those earlier works to explore similarly difficult existential questions about the nature of individual freedom, human relationships, power, and honest living. The Fall, the last novel penned by the Algerian- born French writer Albert Camus (1913–60) prior to his winning the 1957 Nobel Prize in literature, was written as a series of monologues delivered by a French expatriate and former lawyer currently living in the Netherlands. ![]()
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