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• catalog abstract ""May I, monsieur, offer my services without running the risk of intruding?" Thus begins The Fall (La Chute), the last novel of the Algerian-born French writer Albert Camus (1913-60). The two-character work - which has perplexed and disturbed readers since its publication in 1956 - is in essence a dramatic monologue, the confession of a former Parisian attorney, Jean-Baptiste Clamence, to a stranger in an Amsterdam bar. As the narrative unfolds, the reader is increasingly drawn into the role of the listener and ultimately comes to feel personally threatened by Clamence's revelations. For its originality, its intricacy, and its ingenious construction, The Fall represents the culminating masterpiece in a career that earned its writer the Nobel Prize in literature in 1957. Yet The Fall is also less widely known to readers than other works by Camus, such as the novels The Stranger and The Plague, the essay The Myth of Sisyphus, and the play Caligula. Arguing that The Fall is Camus's "most complex and enigmatic literary creation ... and his most successful creation," Brian T. Fitch, a leading Camusian scholar, here offers readers a peerless guide to the novel, the first full-length study to explore the work progressively from the standpoint of the reader's interaction with it. After detailing the biographical and historical events shaping the writing of The Fall, assessing the novel's literary importance, and surveying critics' and scholars' reception to it, Fitch delivers a penetrating reading of the work, drawing on reception theory to demonstrate how Camus crafted his novel to affect readers so subtly yet so profoundly. Readers new to the novel, as well as longtime Camus devotees, will appreciate this soundly presented, forthright analysis of what in Fitch's estimation is Camus's most difficult yet most significant achievement. Included in the volume are a Chronology, Notes and References, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index.".
• catalog contributor b7517776.
• catalog created "1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
• catalog description ""May I, monsieur, offer my services without running the risk of intruding?" Thus begins The Fall (La Chute), the last novel of the Algerian-born French writer Albert Camus (1913-60). The two-character work - which has perplexed and disturbed readers since its publication in 1956 - is in essence a dramatic monologue, the confession of a former Parisian attorney, Jean-Baptiste Clamence, to a stranger in an Amsterdam bar. As the narrative unfolds, the reader is increasingly drawn into the role of the listener and ultimately comes to feel personally threatened by Clamence's revelations.".
• catalog description "Arguing that The Fall is Camus's "most complex and enigmatic literary creation ... and his most successful creation," Brian T. Fitch, a leading Camusian scholar, here offers readers a peerless guide to the novel, the first full-length study to explore the work progressively from the standpoint of the reader's interaction with it. After detailing the biographical and historical events shaping the writing of The Fall, assessing the novel's literary importance, and surveying critics' and scholars' reception to it, Fitch delivers a penetrating reading of the work, drawing on reception theory to demonstrate how Camus crafted his novel to affect readers so subtly yet so profoundly. Readers new to the novel, as well as longtime Camus devotees, will appreciate this soundly presented, forthright analysis of what in Fitch's estimation is Camus's most difficult yet most significant achievement.".
• catalog description "For its originality, its intricacy, and its ingenious construction, The Fall represents the culminating masterpiece in a career that earned its writer the Nobel Prize in literature in 1957. Yet The Fall is also less widely known to readers than other works by Camus, such as the novels The Stranger and The Plague, the essay The Myth of Sisyphus, and the play Caligula.".
• catalog description "Included in the volume are a Chronology, Notes and References, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Literary and Historical Context. 1. The Historical Context. 2. The Importance of the Work. 3. Critical Reception -- A Reading. 4. Camus and The Fall. 5. The Two Worlds of The Fall. 6. Clamence the Protagonist: The Parisian Lawyer. 7. Clamence the Storyteller: The Judge-Penitent. 8. Clamence's Unseen Companion. 9. The Role of the Reader. 10. Rereading and Interpreting The Fall -- 11. Conclusion.".
• catalog extent "xii, 136 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Fall.".
• catalog identifier "0805744525 (pbk.)".
• catalog identifier "0805783601".
• catalog isFormatOf "Fall.".
• catalog isPartOf "Twayne's masterwork studies ; no. 133.".
• catalog isPartOf "Twayne's masterwork studies series ; no. 133".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers,".
• catalog relation "Fall.".
• catalog subject "843/.914 20".
• catalog subject "Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. Chute.".
• catalog subject "PQ2605.A3734 C534 1994".
• catalog tableOfContents "Literary and Historical Context. 1. The Historical Context. 2. The Importance of the Work. 3. Critical Reception -- A Reading. 4. Camus and The Fall. 5. The Two Worlds of The Fall. 6. Clamence the Protagonist: The Parisian Lawyer. 7. Clamence the Storyteller: The Judge-Penitent. 8. Clamence's Unseen Companion. 9. The Role of the Reader. 10. Rereading and Interpreting The Fall -- 11. Conclusion.".
• catalog title "The fall : a matter of guilt / Brian T. Fitch.".
• catalog type "text".