Albert Blok ( fr. Albert Bloch ) is one of the central characters in the cycle of novels by Marcel Proust “ In Search of Lost Time ” (hereinafter referred to as the “Search”).
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Creator | Proust, Marcel |
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Albert Blok in Quest
Albert Blok, the Narrator’s friend, is a Jew, “somewhat pompous and extravagant, combining snobbery with an educated and capricious disposition” [1] . Charle Swan's bright appearance of the Teenage Block reminded Bellini's portrait of Mahomet II [2] : “... the same eyebrows with an arc, the same hooked nose, and the same he bent. When he lets go of the beard, it will be poured out Mohammed ” [3] .
Albert Blok had a certain influence on the Narrator: in his childhood years, Marcel “admired him” [4] , although he did not like his relatives [5] [6] , and his father called Blok “an idiot” [7] . A bit older than the dreamy Marcel, he cynically “lowers him to the ground”, leads with him literary disputes, debunking Racine and opposing Leconte de Lillia to him [2] . It is Blok who tells Marcel about the writer Bergotte , and later opens to him “new ways to happiness,” arguing “that women only dream of love and adventures,” and even takes him for the first time “to the merry house” [8] [9] . The young man-Block became one of the random lovers of Odette Swan , about which two years later in Balbec he boastfully told Marcel [10] . In this resort town, where Albert arrived with his cousins, who “had many relatives and friends” [11] , formerly for the Narrator’s incoherent character traits begin to form a solid portrait: Blok “was, if you use the not quite correct expression , “Badly brought up”, and he did not notice this lack of his own, and, in any case, it could not occur to him that this lack could make the others “distort” [12] .
The ideological principles and behavior of Albert Blok throughout the “Quest” change many times depending on the circumstances. In winter, when, after a trip to Balbec, the Narrator meets with him in the cabin of the Marquise de Villeparisis , Blok tries to look secular - he is an aspiring playwright, “he grew a goatee beard, wore a pince-nez, walked in a long frock coat and, like a scroll of papyrus, held a glove in his hand” [ 13] . But, having admitted an annoying awkwardness and not wanting to admit his guilt, he was “furious, upset, decided that his legs would no longer be in salons” [14] . In the sixth book, “Quest”, when the article of the Narrator finally publishes Figaro , Bloc, envying the literary success of a comrade, deliberately does not respond to it [2] . “He read my article, but admitted it to me later, when he needed an answer from me. A few years later he put an article in Figaro and immediately informed me about this event. He considered my answer as his inalienable privilege ” [15] . During the “Dreyfus affair,” Albert Blok occupied the most extreme and anti-militarist positions in the Dreyfussar camp [2] . In August 1914, on the contrary, he expressed sharply chauvinistic views, but after a few days he radically changed his attitude towards the war and, coming to Marcel, he looked completely shocked, because despite his "short-sightedness" he was recognized as fit for service. By the end of the “Quest”, a prominent Jew, Blok, who lost his father and married his daughter in 1916 to a Catholic [16] , took the name of Jacques du Rosier, became an Englishman, and once again changed his face: “I hardly managed to recognize my friend ... English chic changed his appearance beyond recognition and finally smoothed over what could have been smoothed ” [17] [9] .
Prototypes
- René Blum (1878–1942), a writer, mediated between Proust and the publisher Grasse; author of the book "How did Swan" (1930) [18] .
- Narcissistic Bloc is a type largely opposed to the Narrator, but partly carries some of the features that Proust had as a teenager: “In 1886, in the fifth grade of the lyceum, he was also partially infected by that vigorous pedantism, born under the influence of LeCont de Lille and the classical education, with which he will later reward Blok ” [19] [20] .
In screen
- Christian Vadim - “The Time Found” by Raul Ruiz (1999).
- Arthur Igual - “In Search of Lost Time” by Nina Kompaneets (2011).
See also
- The list of characters in the cycle of novels "In Search of Lost Time"
Notes
- ↑ Nabokov, 1998 , p. 297.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Mikhailov, 2012 , p. 310
- ↑ I, 1999 , p. 147.
- ↑ I, 1999 , p. 139.
- ↑ Erman, 2016 , p. 32.
- ↑ Daudet, 1927 , p. 46.
- ↑ I, 1999 , p. 141.
- ↑ II, 1999 , p. 166.
- ↑ 1 2 Erman, 2016 , p. 33.
- ↑ II, 1999 , p. 384.
- ↑ II, 1999 , p. 340-3341.
- ↑ II, 1999 , p. 343.
- ↑ III, 1999 , p. 187–188.
- ↑ III, 1999 , p. 213-215.
- ↑ VI, 2000 , p. 223.
- ↑ VII, 2001 , p. 138.
- ↑ VII, 2001 , p. 47.49,274.
- ↑ Maurois, 2000 , p. 344.
- ↑ Maurois, 2000 , p. 28,344.
- ↑ Mikhailov, 2012 , p. 311.
Sources
- I - Proust M. In the direction of Swan / lane. with fr. N. M. Lyubimov. - St. Petersburg: Amphora, 1999. - 540 p.
- II - Proust M. Under the canopy of girls in bloom / lane. with fr. N. M. Lyubimov. - Saint-Petersburg: Amphora, 1999. - 607 p.
- III - Proust M. At Germans / Per. with fr. N. M. Lyubimov. - St. Petersburg: Amphora, 1999. - 665 p.
- IV - Proust M. Sodom and Gomorrah / trans. with fr. N. M. Lyubimov. - S-Pb .: Amphora, 1999. - 671 p.
- V - Proust M. Captive / Per. with fr. N. M. Lyubimov. - St. Petersburg: Amphora, 1999. - 527 p.
- VI - Proust M. Beglyanka / transl. with fr. N. M. Lyubimov (app. L. M. Tsyvyan). - Saint-Petersburg: Amphora, 2000. - 391 p.
- VII - Proust M. Time Acquired / Per. with fr. A. N. Smirnova. - S-Pb .: Amphora, 2001. - 382 p.
Literature
- Mikhailov A.D. Poetics of Proust / T. M. Nikolaeva. - M .: Languages of Slavic culture, 2012. - 504 p.
- Morua Andre . In search of Marcel Proust / lane. with fr. D. Efimov. - Saint-Petersburg: Limbus — Press, 2000. - 382 p.
- Nabokov V.V. Marcel Proust (1871-1922). “Towards Swan” (1913) // Lectures on foreign literature / trans. from English G. A. Dashevsky . - M .: Nezavisimaya Gazeta Publishing House, 1998. - p. 275-324. - 510 s.
- Daudet Ch. Répertoire des personnages de "À la recherche du temps perdu" . - Paris: Gallimard, 1927. - 176 p.
- Erman M. Bottins proustiens. Personnages et lieux dans "À la recherche du temps perdu". - Paris: Gallimard, 2016. - 240 p.