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
Notes
"La Chute first published in 1956" - t.p. verso
This translation first published in Penguin Classics 2006