The Fall

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. Drawn from an unfinished Marcel Proust novel left incomplete at the time of his death and first published in a French translation in 1951, The Guermante's Way is a remarkable display of aesthetic sensibilities displayed in Proust's literary work."