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The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas.
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Biography EssayD. M. Thomas is widely known for his novel The White Hotel, which quickly rose to the top of the best-seller lists after its American publication in the spring of 1981. Yet, he is als...
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In the following review, Slung offers favorable evaluation of The White Hotel.
“The psyche of an hysteric is like a child who has a secret, which no one must know, but everyone must guess. And ...
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In the following essay, Wymer examines Thomas's incorporation of classical Freudian theory, particularly themes surrounding the concept of the death instinct, in The White Hotel, and mythic asp...
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In the following essay, Newman provides analysis of recurring symbols, metaphors, and narrative techniques in The White Hotel that underscore the paradoxical dualities of truth, history, and psychic e...
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In the following essay, Sauerberg examines Thomas's problematic incorporation of imaginative lyricism, psychological fantasy, and historical reality in The White Hotel. Sauerberg notes that, wh...
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In the following review, Flanagan offers positive evaluation of The White Hotel.
This novel by the English poet D. M. Thomas is a book of extraordinary beauty, power and audacity—powerful and b...
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In the following essay, Barnsley comments on the popularity of The White Hotel and provides a summary of the novel's plot, characters, and central themes.
I must confess to being an avid, if of...
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In the following essay, Robertson examines Thomas's effort to reconcile postmodern literary aesthetics, myth, and psychoanalysis with the horrific realities of twentieth-century history and fem...
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Critical Essay by Robert Taubman
[The White Hotel] is a short and comprehensive novel, and ingenious in suggesting connections between its different narrative levels—psychoanalytical, historica...
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Critical Essay by Leslie Epstein
What "The White Hotel" sets out to perform, clearly, is the diagnosis of our epoch through the experience of an individual; and the highest praise I can ...
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Critical Essay by Edith Milton
[In The White Hotel D. M. Thomas's] interweaving of psychological symbols and cultural myth, of prophetic intuition and the dismal truths of twentieth-century his...
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Critical Essay by Beverly Lowry
[The White Hotel] is an amazing book. While … [the] and then method of retelling a book's story in order to assess its worth is not always satisfactory, i...
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Critical Essay by The Virginia Quarterly Review
[The White Hotel] begins as a straightforward fictional re-creation of a Freudian case history [and] ends as an apocalyptic vision of life beyond the re...
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Critical Essay by Pearl K. Bell
In The White Hotel, the British poet and novelist D. M. Thomas demonstrates his literary virtuosity…. Though Thomas himself stands outside the novel, and scrupul...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Lively
Reading The White Hotel is like reading a Bergman film. You are battered with symbolism, in perpetual pursuit of images, of references, of bizarre surrealist objects&...
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Critical Essay by Brian Martin
D. M. Thomas gives himself many problems in The White Hotel. The novel, part epistolary, part poetic, part narrative, tells the story of the half-Russian, half-Jewish si...
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Critical Essay by Anne DuchÊne
[The White Hotel] is extremely complex, ambitious and demanding. Freud himself is a central character—in itself a fair index of earnestness—and the ...
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Critical Essay by Paul Ableman
The White Hotel is a work of vast ambition and impressive achievement. It aspires to being little less than a comprehensive synthesis of the forces of life and death ope...
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Critical Essay by Harriett Gilbert
Whatever else may be said of D. M. Thomas, he certainly knows how to stir up the literary shit. My dentist, who is Jewish, nearly rammed the drill through my windpip...
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Critical Essay by Anthony Burgess
Admirers of The White Hotel will find that the technique of that pseudo-novel (the term implies no disparagement) has been put to a similar use [in Ararat]—mea...
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Critical Essay by Diane Johnson
Readers of "Ararat," D. M. Thomas's new novel, will recognize its similarities to his earlier "The White Hotel."… To many crit...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Driver
Ararat is a shorter book than [The White Hotel], but it picks its way through similar no man's lands between fact and fiction, life and literature, erotic f...
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Critical Essay by Jascha Kessler
When a novel called The White Hotel became a bestseller in 1981–1982, its author, D. M. Thomas, was not generally known as a poet…. Thomas is a Cornishma...
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Teaching The White Hotel
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D. M. Thomas
Critical Review by Michele Slung
