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    Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Brodeck's Report with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel, a deeply disturbing story about the depths humans will stoop to in order to erase difference. Brodeck, a concentration camp survivor, is tasked with writing a report to justify the murder of a strange man known as the Anderer. The man had only recently arrived in the village, but was feared for being too different. Claudel expertly interweaves the present-day investigation and Brodeck’s past experiences in a prison camp to highlight the importance of the past and, above all, of memory. Philippe Claudel is a writer and a professor of literature. He has also taught in prisons, and he says that it is this experience which has had the greatest impact on his writing. Brodeck’s Report is his fifth book, and was showered with awards in both his native France and in the English-speaking world; John Cullen received particular praise for his English translation of the novel.

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    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateMay 24, 2017
    ISBN9782806298614
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      Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      French writer and director

      Born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe (France) in 1962.

      Notable works:

      Grey Souls (2003), novel

      Monsieur Linh and His Child (2005), novel

      Petite fabrique des rêves et des réalités (The Making of Dreams and Realities, 2008), novel

      Philippe Claudel is a French writer and director. He is also a senior lecturer at the University of Nancy and a professor at the European Audiovisual and Cinema Institute. He has taught prisoners and disabled people. He is also the author of more than 20 books, which have been translated into dozens of languages and won many awards, including Grey Souls, Monsieur Linh and His Child and Brodeck’s Report. Claudel’s first film, I’ve Loved You So Long, came out in 2008. The theme of war and its consequences can be found in several of his works.

      A war memoir

      Genre: novel

      Reference edition: Claudel, P. (2010) Brodeck’s Report. Trans. Cullen, J. London: Quercus.

      1st edition: 2007

      Themes: Second World War, murder, fear, madness, investigation, memoire

      Brodeck’s Report was published in 2007. It is about a man named Brodeck, who lives in a remote village. One day, the only foreigner in the village is murdered by some of the other villagers. As Brodeck is the only one who both can type and has a typewriter, he is asked to write a precise, detailed

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