No, I was referring to Proust's characters Robert Saint-Loup, an aristocrat in 
love with actress and prostitute named Rachel who is his mistress.  The unnamed 
narrator knows that Rachel is a common whore but Saint-Loup sees her as a 
goddess even though she acts wantonly with nearly any man she sees.  Cervantes' 
Dulcinea is probably a figment of Quixote's fantastic imagination and is not 
portrayed anywhere as a real person, subject to the scrutiny and knowledge by 
other people as is the character of Proust's Rachel.  Both Rachel and Dulcinea, 
however, are perceived as ideal but only one, Rachel, is fictionally at least, 
real, in the sense of being known by others and having a life independent of 
her 
idealizing lover.   See Proust, In search of Lost Time, Vol . III,  The 
Guermantes Way, part one. 
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Are you talking about MAN OF LA MANCHA's Dulcinea?

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