Albert Camus - A Queda

In a sailors' bar in Amsterdam, a man who introduces himself as a judge-penitent strikes up a conversation with a stranger.

Between glasses of gin and wanderings through the streets of that city of concentric canals, reminiscent of the circles of hell, he recalls his past life as a respectable Parisian lawyer, unsurpassed in defending noble causes and in amorous conquests. But as the confession unfolds, ambiguities accumulate, hidden motives are revealed, and triumphs crumble. A biting narrative, brilliantly ironic, "The Fall" describes a journey of decadence to the darkest infamies of modern man. First published in 1956, it was the last work of fiction published during Albert Camus's lifetime.