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Elizabeth Bowen’s first novel brilliantly captures the inflammatory mixture of passion and repression among well-heeled British tourists on the Italian Riviera. Their luxurious seaside hotel seems a closed and comfortable world, marked by dramas no more momentous than tennis games, picnics, and idle gossip. But for the young women of the 1920s, facing a dearth of young men after the first World War, it is a battleground for the clash of tradition and modernity. As rebellious young Sydney Warren tests the boundaries of her incomplete freedom—and becomes obsessed with a clever and charming older woman—she increasingly bewilders her suitors, her handlers, and herself. With the psychological precision and command of atmosphere that marks Bowen’s most famous novels, The Hotel depicts a collection of privileged men and women in determined denial of a world that is falling apart around them.
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The Hotel, Elizabeth Bowen
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
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- Titel
- The Hotel
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0593080653
- ISBN13
- 9780593080658
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Klassiker, Britische Literatur, 20. Jahrhundert, Südeuropa, Italien, Irische Literatur
- Bewertung
- 3,45 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Elizabeth Bowen’s first novel brilliantly captures the inflammatory mixture of passion and repression among well-heeled British tourists on the Italian Riviera. Their luxurious seaside hotel seems a closed and comfortable world, marked by dramas no more momentous than tennis games, picnics, and idle gossip. But for the young women of the 1920s, facing a dearth of young men after the first World War, it is a battleground for the clash of tradition and modernity. As rebellious young Sydney Warren tests the boundaries of her incomplete freedom—and becomes obsessed with a clever and charming older woman—she increasingly bewilders her suitors, her handlers, and herself. With the psychological precision and command of atmosphere that marks Bowen’s most famous novels, The Hotel depicts a collection of privileged men and women in determined denial of a world that is falling apart around them.