[Year of first publication] 1913 [Character(s)] Albert Bloch Charles Swann [Work] In Search of Lost Time (originally published in English as Remembrance of Things Past) (À la recherche du temps perdu) [Creator] Marcel Proust [Country of publication] France [Details] Within the seven volumes of the novel, Bloch is initially presented as a "vulgar" Jew who is attempting to gain admittance to the upper circles of French society, while Swann is a Jewish man who has been assimilated to the point that he is a member of clubs that don't normally admit Jews. By the end of the novel, Bloch has assumed a new name and appearance, while Swann has claimed his cultural Jewish heritage as a result of the impact of the Dreyfus affair.[47][48] [Media] 
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