The Fall
Camus, Albert. Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Hardbound. First published in Paris in 1956 by Librairie Gallimard as La Chute. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Author photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson. In October 1954, Camus was taken by a Dutch acquaintance on a tour of the seedier areas of Amsterdam, including what would become the setting of this, his final novel: Mexico City, a sailors' bar located in the notorious red-light district, which the book's narrator, Jean-Baptiste Clamence, identifies as the innermost circle of a city whose 'concentric canals resemble the circles of hell . . . The middle-class hell, of course, peopled with bad dreams.'
Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Only the lightest of wear to the book. Mylar-protected jacket has some toning, a small area of soiling to the back, and a small area of creasing with a half-inch closed tear to the front. 147 pp. Fiction.
