Albertine Where Are You

Albertine is the most controversial character of Recherche du temps perdu the most mentioned yet the one we know the least about we do not know where she comes from what she does for a living where she ends up and even when she dies we wonder if she ever existed at all Several critics saw in Albertine Prousts driver Alfred Agostinelli a young Italian with whom Proust had been madly in love The novel and Prousts life become the excuse for a contemporary love story where Marcel Albertine and Alfred hide bluff swap genders and roles experiencing love as an eternal question aware that the heart of things cannot be captured but only glimpsed at