Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader’s own complacency.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pages: 94
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780141187945
ISBN 10: 0141187948