{"first_publish_date": "March 12, 1963", "title": "La chute", "covers": [8296477, -1, 13926462], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "MAY 1, monsieur, offer my services without running the risk of intruding?"}, "key": "/works/OL1230631W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL124171A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": "Num bar de marinheiros em Amesterd\u00e3o, um homem que se apresenta como juiz-penitente enceta conversa com um desconhecido. Entre copos de Genebra e deambula\u00e7\u00f5es pelas ruas daquela cidade de canais conc\u00eantricos, a fazer lembrar os c\u00edrculos do inferno, recorda a sua vida passada como respeit\u00e1vel advogado parisiense, insuper\u00e1vel na defesa de causas nobres e nas conquistas amorosas. Mas \u00e0 medida que a confiss\u00e3o se desenrola as ambiguidades acumulam-se, os motivos ocultos revelam-se, os triunfos desabam.\r\n\r\nNarrativa mordaz, de uma ironia brilhante, A Queda descreve uma viagem de decad\u00eancia at\u00e9 \u00e0s mais obscuras inf\u00e2mias do homem moderno. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1956, foi o \u00faltimo livro de fic\u00e7\u00e3o lan\u00e7ado em vida por Albert Camus.", "subject_places": ["Paris (France)", "Amsterdam (Netherlands)", "Amsterdam", "The Netherlands"], "subject_times": ["20th century", "Siglo XX"], "subjects": ["Conscience", "Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Existentialism", "Fiction", "psychological", "French fiction", "French language", "French literature", "Legal stories", "literary fiction", "nobel prize winner", "Novela francesa", "Philosophy", "Romance literature", "Social ethics", "Translations into English", "Fiction, psychological", "La chute (Camus)", "Readers", "Existentialisme", "Romans, nouvelles", "Philosophie", "Roman fran\u00e7ais", "French Novelists"], "links": [{"title": "La Chute (roman) - Wikipedia", "url": "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Chute_(roman)", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "thegreatestbooks.org/items/496", "url": "https://thegreatestbooks.org/items/496", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "R\u00e9sum\u00e9 de \u00ab La Chute \u00bb d\u2019Albert Camus", "url": "https://love-books-review.com/fr/la-chute-de-albert-camus/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "subject_people": ["Jean-Baptiste Clamence"], "identifiers": {"wikidata": ["Q690362"], "goodreads": ["3324245"], "librarything": ["8482"]}, "genres": ["/tags/OL174T"], "latest_revision": 36, "revision": 36, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T20:48:02.913910"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-09-07T14:31:13.671126"}}