by ALBERT CAMUS
Paul Scofield gives a performance of La Chute
The novel translated by Justin O'Brien
Edited by Harry Moore
A one-time Paris barrister, now spending his days and nights in a bar in the sailors' quarter of Amsterdam, tells a compatriot the story of his life-expressing modern man's hypocrisy, his need for justice, and the hope that, when judged, he be judged innocent. In the figure of this self-styled ' judge-penitent ' Camus has created one of the most disturbing characters of our time.
Backgrounds recorded in Amsterdam by Stichting Nederlandse Radio Unie Production by H. B. FORTUIN
: second broadcast