L’image de la mort ou l’histoire d’une sensibilité. Charlotte de David Foenkinos

• Authors: Anna Żurawska

Title variants

EN

The image of death or the story of a sensibility. Charlotte by David Foenkinos

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

FR

The aim of the article is to examine the figure of an artist in the novel Charlotte by David Foenkinos. With his text, he desires to pay homage to Charlotte Salomon, a Jewish painter murdered at age twenty-six in Auschwitz. The Salomon’s biography and works became famous thanks to the novel by Foenkinos. The great merit of his book is to make the painter recognizable to a wide public. The interpretation of the text in which central figure is a painter should include a question about the generic status of the novel, thus the reflection about the Künstlerroman, and about the status of the image in the text, the narrative processes used to make the text more plastic, the ekphrasis, etc. The problem seems interesting because Charlotte does not correspond with the traditional definition of the Künstlerroman. The narrator refers the reader to the extradégétique reality in order to make a connection between the reader and Charlotte’s painting; therefore, he focuses his story on the conception of the image and not on the image itself.

Keywords

FR

Charlotte Salomon; the artist; the Künstlerroman; the death

EN

Charlotte Salomon; the artist; the Künstlerroman; the death

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Wydawnictwo Werset
• Journal: Quêtes littéraires
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 213-221

Dates

published

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Anna Żurawska

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/ql.254