Hotel exile : Paris in the shadow of war / Jane Rogoyska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogoyska, Jane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris, France : Quarter)--History--20th century.

Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris, France : Quarter).

Paris (France)--History--1940-1944.

Paris (France).

France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

France.

Hotel Lutetia (Paris, France)--History.

Hotel Lutetia (Paris, France).

World War, 1939-1945--France--Paris.

World War, 1939-1945.

Hotels--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Hotels.

Genre:

Informational works.

Physical Description:

vi, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2026]

Summary:

Since its opening in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, musicians, and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. But the hotel has a darker history, too--from the years before, during, and after the second World War. In this short period, the Lutetia witnessed some of the most dramatic and terrible events in recent history. In Hotel Exile, Jane Rogoyska evokes in novelistic prose the emotions, dilemmas, and fates of the hotel's patrons. In the 1930s, Europe's bohemian artists and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, met at the Lutetia with the hope of forming an alternative government. But when war came, Paris was occupied, and the hotel became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service--and the center of their operation to root out enemies of the Reich. In 1945, the Lutetia was requisitioned once more, this time transformed into a reception center for Holocaust survivors who sought refuge after the Liberation. Rogoyska explores what it meant for these three profoundly different groups to live in exile, under the shadow of the dark ideology that dictated the course of their lives. A masterpiece of empathy and concision, Hotel Exile is about what happens at the edges of a war, passing through the doors of a normally functioning hotel, a site under occupation, and, finally, a shelter and place of healing. Jane Rogoyska's extraordinary new book offers us a vision of individual human beings desperately trying to find a path through some of the twentieth century's most devastating events.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION From an award-winning historian, the story of World War II artists, intellectuals, and refugees, and one famed Paris hotel.

Since its opening in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, musicians, and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. But the hotel has a darker history, too--from the years before, during, and after the second World War. In this short period, the Lutetia witnessed some of the most dramatic and terrible events in recent history. In Hotel Exile, Jane Rogoyska evokes in novelistic prose the emotions, dilemmas, and fates of the hotel's patrons. In the 1930s, Europe's bohemian artists and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, met at the Lutetia with the hope of forming an alternative government. But when war came, Paris was occupied, and the hotel became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service--and the center of their operation to root out enemies of the Reich. In 1945, the Lutetia was requisitioned once more, this time transformed into a reception center for Holocaust survivors who sought refuge after the Liberation. Rogoyska explores what it meant for these three profoundly different groups to live in exile, under the shadow of the dark ideology that dictated the course of their lives. A masterpiece of empathy and concision, Hotel Exile is about what happens at the edges of a war, passing through the doors of a normally functioning hotel, a site under occupation, and, finally, a shelter and place of healing. Jane Rogoyska's extraordinary new book offers us a vision of individual human beings desperately trying to find a path through some of the twentieth century's most devastating events.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Prologue

Part I: Before: 1933-1939

Part II: During: 1939-1944

Part III: After: 1945

Coda

Notes

Sources

Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 321-329).

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beerman Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781324089902

1324089903

OCLC:

1535850665