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La Chute

Pages
52
Published
1963
Language
English

Synopsis

In a seedy Amsterdam bar, a man calling himself a judge-penitent confesses his life story to a stranger. He recounts his past as a celebrated Parisian lawyer, known for his noble defenses and romantic conquests. But as his confession unfolds, the truth behind his triumphs begins to crumble, revealing a descent into the dark underbelly of modern man.

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel L'Étranger (The Stranger). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for L...

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