The Fall by Albert Camus [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1956 • Vintage Books

The Fall by Albert Camus

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1956] VINTAGE BOOKS

First U.S. mass market paperback printing w/ some truly awesome line-art style cover design.

Book is in very good condition.

Clean, tight and seemingly still unread copy.

*Cover has some mild staining to rear and a worn corner on front. 

Interior, pages are clean and read as new with a hint of inevitable tanning to pages.

First published posthumously in 1956 and greeted as a major literary event, The Fall is Camus' last complete work of fiction. The Fall explores themes of innocence, imprisonment, non-existence, and truth. In a eulogy to Albert Camus, existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre described the novel as "perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood" of Camus' books.

It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man.

Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth.