![]() ![]() ![]() * the prologue - an exchange of letters to, by and about Freud If you count the prologue, "The White Hotel" is divided into seven sections: As soon as he's together with somebody else he shares his secret, he shares his mystery, he shares his God with somebody else."įrom Bad Gastein to Babi Yar, and Onwards to Heaven He's quite alone there he's the lone wolf. "I think that the creative artist is an exile in his study, in his bedroom, in the circle of his lamplight. I don't have the dreams that he discusses in his books. "I think he's crude, I think he's medieval, and I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me. Thomas' respect for Freud, whereas Nabokov says he detests him: There are two main differences from Nabokov’s novel: the relative lack of metafictional self-reflexiveness in "The White Hotel", and D. Structurally, "The White Hotel" resembles Nabokov's "Pale Fire", while stylistically it has more in common with Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain". ![]()
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