The Fall

Albert Camus · 1913–1960 · Algeria / France

Originally La Chute (French)

Why it matters

In an Amsterdam bar, a former Parisian lawyer conducts a one-sided confession that slowly becomes the reader's own indictment. Camus's most formally daring book: Sartre, his estranged rival, called it perhaps his finest.

At a glance

A single unbroken dramatic monologue that implicates the reader directly.