Albert Camus, La Chute [The Fall]

Adele King (Ball State University)

Ed. by David Houston Jones, University of Exeter
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1956

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

La Chute [The Fall] (1956) is Camus’s third work of fiction. He termed it “un récit”, a narrative recounted by a character (as were L’Etranger [The Outsider] and La Peste [The Plague]). Camus did not call anything he wrote a “novel”, until Le Premier Homme [The First Man], the book he was working on when he died. La Chute differs from most of his work as it was written over a short period of time, with fewer revisions than he typically made, and was not part of the original plan that he envisaged when he was starting his literary career. While it continues many of the themes of his earlier work, La Chute is also a response to what happened in his …

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Citation: King, Adele. "La Chute". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 February 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11625, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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