![]() ![]() ![]() The painter depicts him in this painting dressed in a tailcoat, a brown waistcoat, gray striped trousers, a carved cane handle, caramel chevreau gloves. Charles Haas stands out for his elegance: he is the only one wearing color. ![]() He is easily identifiable through Marcel Proust’s final tribute, where he presents him as appearing in James Tissot Circle of the Rue Royale. Charles HaasĬharles Haas is the main source of inspiration for the character of Swann. Swann is a synthesis of multiple figures from Marcel Proust’s surroundings, the dandies of the Belle Époque who revolved around the writer. Swann is also the only character to whom a biographical chapter is dedicated, beginning even before the narrator’s birth. A figure of the cultured and worldly bourgeoisie, he travels throughout the work, from the mother’s kiss to the last pages of Time Regained. Marcel Proust, From Swann’s SideĬharles Swann is one of the central characters in Marcel Proust’s 7-volume novel In Search of Lost Time. One day he came to see us in Paris after dinner apologizing for being in formal attire, Françoise, after he left, claimed to have learned from the coachman that he had dined “at a princess’s””. “But if someone had told my grandmother that Swann, as a son of Swann, was perfectly “qualified” to be received by all the “beautiful bourgeoisie” had, in secret, a completely different life. ![]()
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