description: Proust's housekeeper/confidant talked at length to a transcriber about the writer's haut mode friends, his unusual qualities, and habits in eating, sleeping, dress and work. I've always heard he was pretty strange...kept to his bedroom most of the time in his last years. She really cared about him unconditionally...what a lucky guy to have had two women feel that way about him-both his mother and her. Obviously a biased portrait, and unbeatable in the details. editorial quote, "Book DescriptionCéleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate picture of the daily life of a great writer who was also a deeply peculiar man, while Madame Albaret herself proves to be a shrewd and engaging companion. 
title: Monsieur Proust
titlecomplete: Monsieur Proust
characters: Marcel Proust
genres: 20th Century, Biography, French Literature, Classics, France, History, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Literature, Memoir
ratings_count: 1053
publisher: New York Review of Books Classics