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PLATE SECTION
The following five paintings are taken from Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre?
The tri-coloured play with music begins
The cast is as follows: Dr and Mrs Knarre a married couple, Franziska and Charlotte, their daughters, Dr Kann, a physician, Charlotte Kann, his daughter, Paulinka Bimbam, a singer, Dr Singsong, a versatile person, Professor Klingklang, a famous conductor, an Art teacher, Professor and Students at an art academy and Chorus
The following appear in the Main Section: Amadeus Daberlohn, a voice teacher, his fiancée, a sculptor, Paulinka Bimbam, Charlotte Kann, subsidiary persons
The following appear in the Epilogue: Mrs Knarre, Mr Knarre, Charlotte Kann and Others
The action takes place during the years 1913 to 1940 in Germany, later in Nice, France
Act two
The swastika – a symbol bright of hope—
The day for freedom and for bread now dawns—
Just at this time, many Jews – who, with all their often undesirable efficiency, are perhaps a pushy and insistent race, happened to be occupying government and other senior positions. After the Nazi takeover of power they were all dismissed without notice. Here you see how this affected a number of different souls that were both human and Jewish!
Epilogue
High on a cliff grow pepper trees – softly the wind stirs the small silvery leaves. Far below, foam eddies and melts in the infinite span of the sea. Foam, dreams – my dreams on a blue surface. What makes you shape and reshape yourselves so brightly from so much pain and suffering? Who gave you the right? Dream, speak to me – whose lackey are you? Why are you rescuing me? High up on a cliff grow pepper trees. Softly the wind stirs the small silvery leaves
‘Dear God, only please don’t let me go mad’
The following four paintings are taken from Thérèse Oulton’s work
Speechless, 2005, in Lines of Flight, Thérèse Oulton
211 x 173 cm
Untitled No.14, 2008, in Territory, Thérèse Oulton
42.5 x 60.3 cm
Camera Obscura, 2005, in Lines of Flight, Thérèse Oulton
173 x 203 cm
Transparence No. 8, 1991, in Abstract with Memories, Thérèse Oulton
195.6 x 177.5 cm
A Note on the Author
Jacqueline Rose is internationally acclaimed as a public intellectual for her writing on feminism, literature and psychoanalysis. She is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. In the autumn term of 2014 she takes up the Diane Middlebrook/Carl Djerassi Chair in Gender Studies at Cambridge. From January 2015, she will be Professor of the Humanities at the Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London. Her many books include The Haunting of Sylvia Plath and On Not Being Able to Sleep, and a novel, Albertine. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. She lives in London.
By the Same Author
Non-fiction
Feminine Sexuality – Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne
(edited with Juliet Mitchell, and translated by Jacqueline Rose)
Sexuality in the Field of Vision
The Case of Peter Pan or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath
Why War? – Psychoanalysis, politics and the return to Melanie Klein
States of Fantasy
On Not Being Able to Sleep – Psychoanalysis and the Modern World
The Question of Zion
The Last Resistance
Conversations with Jacqueline Rose
The Jacqueline Rose Reader
Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus to the Middle East
Fiction
Albertine
First published in Great Britain 2014
This electronic edition published in 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Copyright © Jacqueline Rose 2014
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Chapters 1, 3 and 4 have appeared in earlier forms in the London Review of Books
(Nos. 33:12, June 16, 2011, 34:8, April 26, 2012, 31:21, November 5, 2009)
and Chapter 6 is based on a catalogue entry for Yael Bartana’s
exhibition . . . And Europe Will Be Stunned, London: Artangel, 2012
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