Der Fall

"The perhaps most beautiful and least understood of his novels" (Jean-Paul Sartre) in a new translation. In the Amsterdam harbor district, Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a formerly esteemed lawyer, makes a breathtaking confession: self-satisfaction and opportunism have been the true driving forces behind his sense of justice. For one night, when he saw a woman standing on a bridge about to jump into the river, he did not stop her. Since then, his life has been in free fall, and he poses questions to himself and others: Why do we do what we do? Why do we live as we live? This novel, one of the most famous texts of existentialism, is Camus' last completed prose work. A year after its publication, the author received the Nobel Prize in Literature. With an afterword by Iris Radisch.