Charles Swann
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Charles Swann is a cultivated, socially prominent Parisian aesthete whose obsessive love affair and complex inner life form one of the central narrative threads in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Proust character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
In Search of Lost Time
NERFINISHED
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Swann's Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
theme of illusion in love
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theme of social snobbery ⓘ theme of time ⓘ |
| basedOn | Charles Haas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralThemeIn |
analysis of memory
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depiction of obsessive love ⓘ exploration of jealousy ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cultivated
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intelligent ⓘ jealous ⓘ self‑tormenting ⓘ sensitive ⓘ |
| createdBy | Marcel Proust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Du côté de chez Swann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friendOf |
Charles Haas (real-life model)
NERFINISHED
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Narrator's family ⓘ |
| hasChild | Gilberte Swann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducation | highly educated ⓘ |
| hasInnerLife | complex psychological introspection ⓘ |
| healthStatus | suffers from illness later in life ⓘ |
| interestedIn |
literature
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music ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cultivated taste
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obsessive love affair with Odette de Crécy ⓘ |
| language | French (in original text) ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | modernist literature ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Odette de Crécy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movesIn | Faubourg Saint‑Germain society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
link between bourgeois and aristocratic worlds
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protagonist of the section 'Swann in Love' ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| occupation |
aesthete
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art connoisseur ⓘ |
| perceivedAs | assimilated Jew in Parisian high society ⓘ |
| religiousBackground | Jewish origin ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| setIn | Third Republic France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialCircle |
Guermantes aristocratic circle
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Verdurin salon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | socially prominent ⓘ |
| spouse | Odette de Crécy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
In Search of Lost Time