Albertine Simonet
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Albertine Simonet is a central, enigmatic love interest of the narrator in Marcel Proust’s novel cycle "In Search of Lost Time," embodying themes of desire, jealousy, and the elusiveness of truth.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Proust character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
In Search of Lost Time
NERFINISHED
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À la recherche du temps perdu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInPart |
Sodom and Gomorrah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Fugitive NERFINISHED ⓘ The Guermantes Way NERFINISHED ⓘ The Prisoner NERFINISHED ⓘ Within a Budding Grove NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
control
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desire ⓘ freedom ⓘ homosexuality ⓘ jealousy ⓘ memory ⓘ possession ⓘ sexual ambiguity ⓘ the elusiveness of truth ⓘ |
| basedOn | Alfred Agostinelli (commonly cited inspiration) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causesInNarrator |
fear of abandonment
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intense jealousy ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
elusive
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enigmatic ⓘ secretive ⓘ |
| createdBy | Marcel Proust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDescribedAs | reported accident ⓘ |
| diesInNarrative | true ⓘ |
| firstMeetsNarratorAt | Balbec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAmbiguousSexuality | true ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | one of the most analyzed characters in Proust’s work ⓘ |
| livesWith | the narrator in Paris (in The Prisoner) ⓘ |
| memberOf | the little band of girls at Balbec ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for the narrator’s jealousy
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focus of the narrator’s attempts to know another person fully ⓘ object of obsessive love ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| posthumousRole | continues to haunt the narrator’s memory ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | the unnamed first‑person narrator ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central female figure in the narrator’s emotional life
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love interest of the narrator ⓘ |
| rumoredToHaveRelationshipsWith | women ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
the constructed nature of romantic love
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the impossibility of fully knowing another person ⓘ the instability of desire ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
In Search of Lost Time