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Octave Mirbeau gained fame as a master of shock with his novel Diary of a Chambermaid. The protagonist, the maid Célestine, exposes the sordid realities of the life of French nobles in the late nineteenth century. She has been serving the masters almost since childhood, and therefore knows many other people's secrets. And although this novel is called scandalous and erotic, its pages are permeated with deep reflections of a mercenary, fears of a woman, and feelings of a person who is honest with herself. Celestine does not stand aside from the stormy cynical life she writes about in her diary - she swims freely in its waters, trying not to dissolve.