Charlotte E-Book

Laurence Lissoir

• Herausgeber: BrightSummaries.com
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 24

Beschreibung

What should we remember about Charlotte, Prix Renaudot 2014? Find everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed book report.
You will find in particular in this sheet:
- A complete summary
- A presentation of the main characters such as Charlotte Salomon and Franziska Grunwald
- An analysis of the work's specificities: What is a fictionalized biography? What is free verse? The obsession of a writer
A reference analysis to quickly understand the meaning of the work.

Leseprobe

DAVID FOENKINOS

FRENCH NOVELIST

•Born in 1974 in Paris

•Some of his works:

•The Erotic Potential of My Wife (2004), novel

•La Délicatesse (2009), novel

•The Memories (2011), novel

A great lover of art, it was not until the age of 16, when he had just undergone surgery for pleural disease and was bedridden for several months, that he took up reading, painting and the guitar. After unsuccessfully trying to start a music band, he turned to writing after graduating from the Sorbonne with a degree in literature. In his novels, David Foenkinos usually deals with love with humour.

At the age of 40, this young author has already won several awards. He received the Roger Nimier Prize in 2004 for Le Potentiel érotique de ma femme and the Conversation Prize for La Délicatesse in 2010. In 2014, he won the Prix Renaudot and the Prix Goncourt des lycéens with his work Charlotte.

CHARLOTTE

BETWEEN FANTASY LOVE AND FAMILY DETERMINISM

•Genre: fictionalized biography

•Reference edition:Charlotte, Paris, Gallimard, 2014, 221 p.

•1re edition: 2014

•Main themes: Charlotte Salomon, Nazism, intolerance, exclusion, love, homeland, family, art, war

Charlotte is a fictionalized biography of the life of Charlotte Salomon, a young German Jewish artist who was gassed during the Second World War. The book traces her artistic journey, through her work, and her family journey following investigations by David Foenkinos. The novel is written in free verse and each sentence is broken up, giving the text the feel of a long poem with a certain rhythm.

When it was published, Charlotte was a real bestseller, selling over 400,000 copies. The book won the Goncourt des lycéens prize and the Renaudot prize. Although praised by the press for its distinctive literary style and the way it carries the reader along with the sentences and life of Charlotte Salomon, it is also criticised for the naivety of its deceptively simplistic prose and its language, which never really explains the reason for its obsession with the German artist.

SUMMARY

“THE ‘WHOLE LIFE’ OF AN ARTIST

Charlotte Salomon was a German Jewish artist who was born in Berlin in 1917 and died in Auschwitz in 1943. Deeply influenced by the atrocities of her time, she is known for her autobiographical work Leben? oder Theater? Using the three primary colours (red, blue and yellow), she painted around 800 pictures depicting her mother, her father and her passionate love for Alfred Wolfsohn, as well as the tragic episode of Kristallnacht and her exile in France. The particularity of her pictorial work lies in the fact that it is accompanied by descriptive texts, literary quotations and musical references.