A project exploring hotels in modernist literature, hosted by the University of Athens and funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation
Athens, Greece
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4/) Saigon hotels of the Vietnam War: Hotel Rex, Saigon: Taken over entirely as officer's billet and JUSPAO Joint US Public Affairs Office where they have the daily 'Five O'Clock Follies' @HotemsP @MAC_VSOG
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Hotel Blues, anyone? Some gospel praying for a NYC hotel opening...Published this @HotemsP Expicator piece on Langston Hughes: "'Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!' Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement": tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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ALT Credit: Langston Hughes, “Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria,” Illustrated by Walter Steinhüber, New Masses, Dec. 1931. 16-17. Image Credit: Marxists Internet Archive https://www.marxists.org/.../v07n07-dec-1931-New-Masses.pdf.
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The next time you're writing a conference papers in a hotel, we recommend Anna Despotopoulou on women and interwar hotels as a "space of one's own".
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«Ιστορίες ξενοδοχείων:
Η ανάδυση του ελληνικού ξενοδοχείου στη λογοτεχνία»
Κυκλοφορεί από τις Εκδόσεις του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου (συνεπιμέλεια με Χρύσα Μαρίνου @chrmarinou, @HotemsP) και άρθρα από εκλεκτούς συντελεστές.
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"I spent a week there in the old familiar room at the Cecil, now stripped of all its finery and echoing like a barn with the seawind sweeping under doors and through the windows; I reflected on exile in general and my own in particular...1/2
#DarkDurrell #callforpapers #Hotel
ALT E. M. Forster, Alexandria: A History and Guide, Introduction by Lawrence Durrell, xv– xx. London and New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks.
ALT David Hockney, "Man in Lobby, Hotel Cecil," Alexandria , 1963 Medium: ink on hotel stationary
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John Atkinson Grimshaw 🎨 ( 6 September 1836 - 13 October 1893 ).
Scarborough from the Seats near The Grand Hotel, 1879.
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Rue Lepsius in the 1980s. The flat with the balcony and washing once belonged to Cavafy. At the time this picture was taken, it was a cheap pension. Photograph: Michael Haag.
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Jacques Verroust.
Rue Tholozé et le Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre
Fin des années 1950. Paris
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"Georgian Café, the Grange, Winnipeg." One of a set of collotype postcards produced for the hotel's owner, George Skinner. Unused. Restaurant interiors are really interesting -- countless thousands of these images are preserved on postcards from this era from around the world.
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“I met in the lobby of the hotel Mme Pringo, Mr. Haicalis and his daughters, with whom I exchanged a few polite words. As I did not feel quite well, I did not lunch. I had a copious tea at 3 – eggs, bread and butter. I feel very well now.”
– C.P. Cavafy, Phalerum, 27 July 1901.
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The author Richard Llewellyn stayed at the Russell Hotel over Christmas 1943 as 'Lt.Lloyd' whilst serving with the Welsh Guards @HotemsP @WelshGuardsWGR
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“In the evening I met Mavrogordato and Mela at the hotel. Mela introduced me to a Mr. Negroponte. Two other men, Paparigopoulo and Valaoritis, joined us. All these were young men of high class; consequently conversation was of society and its doings.”
– C.P. Cavafy, 16 July 1901
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A 1905 image of Scarborough showing the Grand Hotel and the Rotunda Museum. The circular building which opened in 1829 was one of the first purpose built museums in the world and was designed to show off it’s prize collection of geological exhibits. Visiting in 1839
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Ervin Marton.
Enfants jouant devant l'Hôtel de la Gironde, rue des Grands-Augustins
1955. Paris 6e
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“I felt unwell & did not lunch. I was better in the evening. There was a real crowd at dinner. Giannopoulo pointed out to me among the diners Mr. Theotokis, the Prime Minister, & Mr. Romano, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Went to bed at 10 pm.”
– Cavafy, Phalerum, 7 July 1901
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“It was very dull yesterday. Raining all the time. Tables for dinner were served, as usual, in the open air, but the people had scarcely had their soup before a pouring rain came down, & all tables had to be carried back to the dining room.”
– C.P. Cavafy, Phalerum, 8 July 1901
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“This morning we took up our new quarters at Phalerum. The hotel seems decent. The lunch was tolerable.”
– C.P. Cavafy, Phalerum, 1 July 1901.
