Surviving the Fall

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Orr, Graeme
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Year published
1996
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In the first line of Camus' The Fall (La Chute),' we meet a man marooned in a seedy Amsterdam bar. He calls himself Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a self-styled judge-penitent. For over a hundred pages, Clamence addresses us and woos us as he draws us further and further into his labyrinthine, demoralising tale.In the first line of Camus' The Fall (La Chute),' we meet a man marooned in a seedy Amsterdam bar. He calls himself Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a self-styled judge-penitent. For over a hundred pages, Clamence addresses us and woos us as he draws us further and further into his labyrinthine, demoralising tale.
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Journal Title
Griffith Law Review
Volume
5
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© 1996 Griffith Law School. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
Subject
Law