Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life
A Novel

Jako mi je lepo ovo bilo, moram reći. Zašto mi se svidela: jasno je da je reč o istorijskoj fikciji, ali je dobro istražena tema. Fino je sve portretisano: i rat, i ludilo u porodici, i odnos s majkom i dedom. Šta mi se nije svidelo: moglo je da bude i kraće. Veoma hvala ovom ljubaznom sajtu Edelweiss......more

Pamela Reitman is a remarkably painterly writer of the artist Charlotte Salomon’s inspiring life. As a psychoanalyst who has treated incest for decades, I can attest that she has been able to transmit quite precisely the quality of this character's “possession," which accompanies being the victim of......more

"To make sense of suffering" This is how Simone Wiel guided her life. And also how Charlotte Salomon found her way through the same difficult, dangerous times. CHARLOTTE SALOMON PAINTS HER LIFE by Pamela Reitman tells the painter's story as Hitler comes to power. After Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1......more

I found this story, a stunning work of fiction inspired by the very real, vibrant, and haunting life of Charlotte Salomon, to be beautifully written and absolutely breathtaking. A young Jewish painter exiled from her native Germany at the onset of Hitler’s rise to power, Charlotte finds herself in a......more

Pamela Reitman’s compelling novel is based on the life and work of Charlotte Salomon, the German Jewish painter who died in Auschwitz in 1943 when she was just 26 years old. After the Nazis came to power, Charlotte was sent to the South of France to live with her grandparents, who had already escape......more