The Fall (Penguin Modern Classics)

基本信息

Paperback: 96 pages

Publisher: Penguin Classics; Re-issue edition (6 July 2006)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780141187945

ISBN-13: 978-0141187945

ASIN: 0141187948

Product Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 5mm | 78g

书籍简介

A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his novels, Albert Camus' The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics.

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. The Fall (1956) is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence. But beyond depicting one man's disillusionment, Camus's novel exposes the universal human condition and its absurdities - for our innocence that, once lost, can never be recaptured ...

Albert Camus (1913-60) is the author of a number of best-selling and highly influential works, all of which are published by Penguin. They include The Fall, The Outsider and The First Man. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Camus is remembered as one of the few writers to have shaped the intellectual climate of post-war France, but beyond that, his fame has been international.

If you enjoyed The Fall, you might like Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'An irresistibly brilliant examination of modern conscience'

The New York Times

'Camus is the accused, his own prosecutor and advocate. The Fall might have been called "The Last Judgement" '

Olivier Todd

作者简介

阿尔贝·加缪（Albert Camus，1913年11月7日—1960年1月4日），法国作家、哲学家，存在主义文学、“荒诞哲学”的代表人物。主要作品有《局外人》、《鼠疫》等。

加缪于1957年获得诺贝尔文学奖，他在20世纪50年代以前，一直被看作是存在主义者，尽管他自己多次否认。1951年加缪发表了哲学论文《反抗者》之后，引起一场与萨特等人长达一年之久的论战，最后与萨特决裂。

加缪在他的小说、戏剧、随笔和论著中，深刻地揭示出人在异己的世界中的孤独、个人与自身的日益异化，以及罪恶和死亡的不可避免。但他在揭示出世界的荒诞的同时却并不绝望和颓丧，他主张要在荒诞中奋起反抗，在绝望中坚持真理和正义，他为世人指出了一条基督教和马克思主义以外的自由人道主义道路。他直面惨淡人生的勇气，他“知其不可而为之”的大无畏精神，使他在第二次世界大战之后不仅在法国，而且在欧洲并最终在全世界，成为他那一代人的代言人和下一代人的精神导师。