# Elstir — In Search of Lost Time character guide

> Elstir in In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** M. Elstir, Madame Elstir

**First appearance:** 0011-part-ii-place-names-the-place-continued

## Who they are

A great impressionist painter who befriends the narrator at Balbec.

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