The White Hotel Summary
D. M. Thomas

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... Read more

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. A... Read more

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... Read more

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 an... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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, ... Read more

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 scrupu... Read more

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 s... Read more

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 op... Read more

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]—me... Read more

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 ... Read more