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Subject(s)

• Proust, Marcel 1871-1922 [Browse]
• Albaret, Céleste [Browse]
• Novelists, French—20th century—Biography [Browse]
• Household employees—France—Biography [Browse]

Related name

Belmont, Georges [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Biographies [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• collective biographies [Browse]

Series

New York Review Books classics [More in this series]

Summary note

"Céleste 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."--Publisher description.

Notes

• Originally published: London : Collins : Harvill Press, 1976.
• Includes index.

Contents

• A grand seigneur
• A cloud of smoke
• And then the war
• The last trip to Carbourg
• The life of a recluse
• Retreat into illness
• An appetite for memories
• An extreme modesty
• The dark nights of Paris
• Your mother is dead
• His evenings out
• His love for his mother
• The Camellia period
• The family
• First loves
• "Other" loves
• Politics
• Tyrannical and suspicious
• Friends but no friendship
• The pursuit of characters
• Monsieur de Charlus
• "I've worked well, Céleste"
• The rejection
• The fake monk
• Fame
• Uprooted
• The Poulet Quartet
• "The End"
• Time Stops.

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ISBN

• 1590170598 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 9781590170595 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2003017246

OCLC

52765826

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