In a poem, Anne Carson wrote that this character’s problems are “lying” and “lesbianism” from the narrator’s point of view, and “being imprisoned in the narrator’s house” from her point of view. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who the narrator meets at Balbec. Her “disappearance” in a horse racing accident titles a long novel’s sixth volume, which is sometimes translated as The Fugitive.
ANSWER: Albertine Simonet [or Albertine Simonet; accept Albertine disparu]
[10e] A theory holds that this author’s character Albertine is actually male and based on his chauffeur. A tea-soaked madeleine triggers memories in Swann’s Way, the first volume of a novel by this author.
ANSWER: Marcel Proust [or Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust]
[10h] This author, who took her pseudonym from a Proust character, began reading Proust with Albertine disparu. In a novel by this author, a teenaged girl plots against her father’s mistress Anne, who threatened to stop spoiling her.
ANSWER: Françoise Sagan [or Françoise Delphine Quoirez] (The novel is Bonjour Tristesse.)
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