The White Hotel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A landmark work of postmodern fiction, The White Hotel chronicles the life of Lisa Erdman, a young opera singer whose vivid erotic fantasies and terrifying premonitions lead her into the consulting room of Sigmund Freud himself. D.M. Thomas constructs a dazzling, multi-layered narrative that shifts between verse, prose poetry, and a fabricated Freudian case study, building toward one of the most harrowing and devastating climaxes in twentieth-century literature — the Babi Yar massacre. The novel argues, with visceral force, that the unconscious mind can hold the seeds of historical catastrophe, weaving the personal and the political into a single, unforgettable tapestry. Praised as precise, troubling, brilliant by the Observer, it remains a profoundly unsettling meditation on desire, suffering, and the limits of psychoanalysis in the face of absolute evil.
Author: D.M. Thomas
Format: Paperback
Published: 1981, King Penguin
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A landmark work of postmodern fiction, The White Hotel chronicles the life of Lisa Erdman, a young opera singer whose vivid erotic fantasies and terrifying premonitions lead her into the consulting room of Sigmund Freud himself. D.M. Thomas constructs a dazzling, multi-layered narrative that shifts between verse, prose poetry, and a fabricated Freudian case study, building toward one of the most harrowing and devastating climaxes in twentieth-century literature — the Babi Yar massacre. The novel argues, with visceral force, that the unconscious mind can hold the seeds of historical catastrophe, weaving the personal and the political into a single, unforgettable tapestry. Praised as precise, troubling, brilliant by the Observer, it remains a profoundly unsettling meditation on desire, suffering, and the limits of psychoanalysis in the face of absolute evil.