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Hotel Theory is two books in one: a meditation on the meaning of hotels, and a dime novel (Hotel Women) featuring Lana Turner and Liberace. Typical of Wayne Koestenbaum s invigoratingly inventive style, the two books one fiction, one nonfiction run concurrently, in twin columns, and the articles a, an, and the never appear. The nonfiction ruminations on hotels are divided into eight dossiers, composed of short takes on the presence of hotels in the author s dreams as well as in literature, film, and history. Guest stars include everyone from Oscar Wilde to Marilyn Monroe. Hotel Theory gives (divided) voice to an aesthetic of hyperaesthesia, of yearning. It is an oblique manifesto, the place where writing disappears. A new mode of theorizing in fiction, in fragment, through quotation and palimpsest arises in this dazzling work.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Hotel Theory
• Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174
• EAN: 9781933368696
• ISBN: 1933368691
• ID: 09246393
• Publisher: SOFT SKULL PRESS
• Weight: 331 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 168 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. May 2007

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