Charlotte / David Foenkinos This story is a biography of Charlotte Salomon. In a strange style. Jai been largely hampered at first by this succession of short sentences and return to the line. Enumeration or gendarmerie report or minutes: to choose from! Neither poetry nor lyricism or melody. No beautiful rhythmic phrases. A staccato rhythm. Brutal. A flood of short sentences. Like a film script. The point suddenly comes after the subject and the verb complement. So much for the form. End of story! As Mr. Foenkinos who had accustomed us to something else; (Memories). And then I got used to this form And finally, I began to love this book. For the background, David Foenkinos tells a beautiful story that was dramatic have made us vibrate and passionately upset us davantage.Peut-being. This is the story of Charlotte Salomon, born in Berlin in 1917 and died in Auschwitz in 1943. A great artist and painter. His family was wealthy German Jewish: his father, Albert, was a physician and professor at the university of Berlin. His mother committed suicide while Charlotte was just nine years old. His father remarried three years later with Paula Lindberg, famous opera singer. Charlotte was a taciturn child, shy and melancholic. Laccession of Nazism in 1933 made life very difficult for the Jewish community. His father had to cease its exercise. During his studies in Fine Arts, Charlotte had to endure all the hardships. But she knows love with Alfred: "She is naked, standing. It descends along her body with kisses. A lost promenade between sweetness and torment. His mad wanderings are yet so precise. They already sensual brush the consecration. Charlotte arches with yes. Alfred, my love. " Alfred will be his one true love. She never loubliera even in the arms of another man she is pregnant later. In 1938, after Kristallnacht, she agreed to go to France with her grandparents who fled lAllemagne 1934. She wants to paint and draw. His tragic end is pregnant then what is there to remind us once again the barbarity that prevailed. Four stars for the beauty of history and the hard and persistent work of research David Foenkinos. A beautiful book ultimately to never forget Charlotte Salomon.
