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Soutine's Last Journey
Soutines letzte Fahrt
Ralph Dutli (born 1954)
Translated by Katharina Rout
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Soutine's Last Journey
Seagull Books · United Kingdom · April 2020 · Hardcover · 268 pages
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Soutine's Last Journey
Seagull Books · United Kingdom · 2023
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On 6 August 1943, the Belarusian-Jewish painter Chaim Soutine, contemporary of Chagall, Modigliani and Picasso, is driven from the town of Chinon on the Loire to occupied Paris, hidden in a hearse. The operation on his stomach ulcer cannot wait, but the detours around German checkpoints stretch the drive to 24 hours. In a stream of bizarre images that rise before the persecuted painter in a morphine delirium, the novel, half historical and half invented, tells of his childhood in Smilovichi near Minsk, his first attempts at painting in Vilna, his stubborn dream of Paris, his unlikely friendship with Modigliani and his sudden success.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 270 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France, Belarus, Lithuania, 1943
- First published
- 2013 by Wallstein Verlag
- Author's age
- 59 when first published
- ISBN
9783835312081 (original)
9780857426925 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)
9781803092164 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)
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