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France-2: "The Fall" by Albert Camus

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France-2: "The Fall" by Albert Camus

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"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader's own complacency."

The book, present in all lists of best 20th century Literature, is, perhaps, the most ruthless exploration of human self-deception and anomie by Nobel Laureate Albert Camus...

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