Women in Dark Times (54 page)

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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