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Charlotte

David Foenkinos

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

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Title	:	Charlotte
Author	:	David Foenkinos
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	August 21st 2014 by Gallimard (first published July 3rd 2014)
Categories	:	Cultural. France. Biography. Nonfiction. Art. European Literature. French Literature

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Ce roman retrace la vie de Charlotte Salomon, artiste peintre morte à vingt-six ans alors qu'elle était enceinte. Après une enfance à Berlin marquée par une tragédie familiale, Charlotte est exclue progressivement par les nazis de toutes les sphères de la société allemande. Elle vit une passion amoureuse fondatrice, avant de devoir tout quitter pour se réfugier en France. Exilée, elle entreprend la composition d'une œuvre picturale autobiographique d'une modernité fascinante. Se sachant en danger, elle confie ses dessins à son médecin en lui disant : «C'est toute ma vie.»
Portrait saisissant d'une femme exceptionnelle, évocation d'un destin tragique, Charlotte est aussi le récit d'une quête. Celle d'un écrivain hanté par une artiste, et qui part à sa recherche.

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Original Title:	Charlotte
ISBN:	2070145689 (ISBN13: 9782070145683)
Edition Language:	French URL http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Blanche/Charlotte
Literary Awards:	Prix Renaudot (2014), Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (2014), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2016), Prix des prix littéraires Nominee (2014)

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I was deeply moved by this beautiful and haunting tribute to the life and incandescent talent of young Charlotte Salomon. She was raised in a cultured household in Berlin, survived strange repeated family tragedy, and had the prescience in her mid 20s to preserve her life's story in a unique way (that likely saved her sanity) before perishing naked and five-months-pregnant in a gas chamber in Auschwitz.Foenkinos' choice to use short sentences each on one line, not unlike music lyrics, gives a

' To survive she must paint her story. That is the only way out'This is a short but very potent book that combines an impressionist view of the short life of Charlotte Salomon, gassed at 26 with her unborn baby in Auschwitz, with the author's meditations on following her traces and how to convey her life in writing.It's a story imbued with death: so many women in Salomon's family commit suicide, but she clings to a kind of immortality through her autobiographical paintings.Foenkinos writes in an

I read this book for my French class, so I wasn't expecting that much from it, however, it turned out to be a beautiful (yet haunting) book. Charlotte managed to escape the vicious cycle of suicides that her family was in, not because she didn't commit suicide, but because she was killed in Auschwitz' gas chambers before it was 'her time' to commit suicide. I suppose that, in a way, this was a victory for her. I was a little disappointed that the author chose not to go into detail about what

some uncertainties end as inevitabilities. dolorous and devastating, david foenkinos's charlotte is the novelization of the tragic life of berlin-born jewish artist charlotte salomon. surrounded by suicide, young charlotte turned to art to make sense of her life and the world around her, developing a singular style that would later garner fair acclaim. while her talents drew attention early on, it wasn't until after she was murdered at auschwitz (at the age of 26, while pregnant) that her work

I had never heard of this German/Jewish artist before picking up this book, but I have since looked her up and find her paintings fascinating. This is written in the prose style, a style I fell in love with after reading Brown Girl Dreaming, and it tells the story of this young woman and her family. She was born in Berlin, but her family thinks they are getting her to safety by sending her to France, which of course was safe only for a while.The author inserts himself in the story, telling the

I had never heard of this German/Jewish artist before picking up this book, but I have since looked her up and find her paintings fascinating. This is written in the prose style, a style I fell in love with after reading Brown Girl Dreaming, and it tells the story of this young woman and her family. She was born in Berlin, but her family thinks they are getting her to safety by sending her to France, which of course was safe only for a while.The author inserts himself in the story, telling the

"To survive she must paint her story. That is the only way out... Did she have to reach the edge of what is bearable? To finally consider art as the only possibility of life."Wow. This book was so incredibly powerful and moving... I cried.Charlotte tells the tragic (yet inspiring) true story of Charlotte Salomon- a German Jewish artist who died at the young age of 26- whilst pregnant- gassed in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. With a family history of depression and suicide, she fought for her