Hotel du Lac (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Anita Brookner
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Psychological romance
- Time of Work: The early 1980’s
- Setting: Lake Geneva, Switzerland, and London
- Principal Characters: Edith Hope, David Simmonds, Geoffrey Long, Philip Neville, Madame De Bonneuil, Iris Pusey, Jennifer Pusey, Monica (Lady X)
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Character study, Metafiction
- Subjects: Values, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Authors or writers, Marriage, 1980’s, Novelists, Women’s issues, Upper classes, Adultery, Letter writing, Hotels, motels, or inns, Creative process, Loneliness, Letters, Gossip, Romanticism, Switzerland or Swiss people, Nostalgia
- Locales: Lake Geneva, Switzerland
The Novel
Everything in Hotel du Lac is seen through the eyes of Edith Hope, a diffident and unassuming writer of popular romantic fiction who is staying in a hotel of former splendor beside Lake Geneva, apparently against her will. She has been temporarily banished from London in some kind of disgrace. The hotel, the few guests who are lingering on to the end of the season, and the events which have led to Edith’s reluctant vacation are described in an elegantly written third-person account of her thoughts, reminiscences, and observations and through the long and...
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