La Caduta by Albert Camus
A former successful Parisian lawyer delivers a long, confessional monologue to a silent listener in Amsterdam, recounting how a series of humiliations and complacencies led him to abandon his pretensions to virtue and embrace a role of self-appointed judge and penitent; through ironic detachment, sharp observation and repeated self-accusation he unmasks his own hypocrisy and explores themes of guilt, responsibility, freedom and the human tendency to condemn others to avoid confronting one’s own moral failures.
- Published
- 1956
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 140-160 pages
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- La Caduta
- La Chute
- La caída
- The Fall
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