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Hotels in Literature

Elizabeth Bowen’s Swiss Hotel in “Salon des Dames” (1923)

By Chryssa Marinou Elizabeth Bowen’s 1923 short story entitled “Salon des Dames” offers a view of the hotel space in the aftermath of World War…
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anna13/02/2021
Hotels in Literature

Walter Benjamin’s Hotels

by Chryssa Marinou Walter Benjamin goes to Nice in July 1932 and books into the Hotel du Petit Parc. According to Esther Leslie’s Walter Benjamin,…
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admin09/01/2021
Hotels in Literature

“The English tongue in Egypt finds its centre at Shepheard’s Hotel”

by Athanasios Dimakis Anthony Trollope and Amelia Edwards at the Cairo Shepheard’s Colonial hotels like the Cairo Shepheard’s foreground the centrality of grand hotels in…
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admin08/01/2021
Hotels in Literature

“The Midland, the Carlton, the Adelphi, on, for instance, Christmas Night”

By Athanasios Dimakis   In “VI The Future” of Paris Nights: And Other Impressions of Places and People, Arnold Bennett underscores the opulence and sparkle…
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admin23/12/2020
Hotels in Literature

Henry James’s “Meridional” Hotel de France in Narbonne

by Chryssa Marinou The travelogue was originally published under the title En Province in 1883–1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly. James tours several…
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admin01/09/2020
Hotels in Literature

Hotel Pen-pals: An E. M. Forster Letter to C. P. Cavafy

By Athanasios Dimakis The Cavafy archive is constituted by a large number of manuscripts, makeshift collections of poems and prose works, articles, drafts and notes…
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admin21/08/2020
Hotels in Literature

Hotel Suicide: Michail Mitsakis

by Chryssa Marinou   Michail Mitsakis (c. 1868 – 1916) first published his short story “Αυτόχειρ” (“By His Own Hand”) in the newspaper Acropolis in…
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admin27/05/2020
Hotels in Literature

Arnold Bennett’s 1902 The Grand Babylon

By Chryssa Marinou “In the world of hotels it was currently stated that, next to the proprietor, there were three gods at the Grand Babylon…
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admin16/05/2020
Hotels in Literature

Daisy Miller at the Trois Couronnes

"At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is…
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admin02/05/2020
Hotels in Literature

“Arrival in the Hotel,” Joseph Roth’s The Hotel Years

"The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold antiqua letters…
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admin23/04/2020
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