Summary

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The short Story „Skin“ written by author Roald Dahl and is about an artist named C. Soutine, Drioli and his wife Josie. The text is beginning with Drioli´s strange Situation. A former tattoo parlor owner, Drioli, remembers when he knew a now-famous artist named Soutine when he sees one of his paintings in an art gallery. Thirty years ago, Soutine had been in love with Drioli´s wife Josie, an Drioli asked Soutine to paint a picture an Drioli´s back and then over it. Josie posed for it, and Drioli still has the tattoo on his back. Drioli enters the art gallery, and shows the crowd his incredible tattoo. Several people make bids for it, and two men give him a choice: one says he will pay for a skin-grafting operation on his back (and the man will consequently pay for the tattoo) while the other asks him to come to the Bristol Hotel in Cannes, and simply exhibit his back to the customers, similar to a model. Drioli decides to come with the latter, and leaves the gallery. Later, a “heavily varnished” painting of the same subject is on sale in Buenos Aires. The Narrator then says that he truly hopes Drioli is now comfortable and rich, for there is no Bristol Hotel in Cannes. The implication is that Drioli has been killed to obtain the art on his back. However, there is no direct sentence stating this and therefore no one truly knows what became of Drioli.

[Duckduck (Contributor)]

The short story „Skin“ was written by the author Roald Dahl and is about an artist named C. Soutine, a man called Drioli and his wife Josie. The text begins with describing Drioli's strange situation. He is a former tattoo parlor owner who remembers that he used to know a now-famous artist named Soutine when he sees one of his paintings in an art gallery. Thirty years ago, Soutine was in love with Drioli's wife Josie. Drioli had asked him to paint a picture on Drioli's back and then over it???Das verstehe ich nicht. Josie had posed for it, and Drioli still has the tattoo on his back. Drioli enters the art gallery and shows the crowd his incredible tattoo. Several people offer money for it, and two men give him a choice: one says he will pay for a skin-grafting operation on his back (and the man will consequently pay for the tattoo). The other one asks him to come to the Bristol Hotel in Cannes, and simply exhibit his back to the customers like a model. Drioli decides on taking the latter offer and leaves the gallery. Some time later, a “heavily varnished” painting of the same subject is on sale in Buenos Aires. The narrator (then) says that he truly hopes Drioli is now comfortable and rich, for there is no Bristol Hotel in Cannes. The implication is that Drioli has been killed in order to obtain the piece of art on his back. However, there is no explicit statement and therefore no one really knows what has become of Drioli.

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