Monsieur Proust

Céleste Albaret, who was Proust's housekeeper and confidante during the last eight years of his life, first published these memoirs in 1972, 50 years after Proust's death. As the woman who knew Proust better, perhaps, than anyone else, she sheds invaluable light on not only his deeply eccentric personal habits, his precarious health, and his likes and dislikes, but also on the way he worked and on the source of much of the material in his monumental novel.