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Author |
: Ludwig Bemelmans |
Publisher |
: Pushkin Press |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2022-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781782277910 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1782277919 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hotel Splendide by : Ludwig Bemelmans
“Truly a great book—unique, invaluable and unapproachable as the gold standard of the genre… Bemelmans got there first, more frequently, and better.” —Anthony Bourdain Acerbic, colorful, and spirited stories from a bygone era: behind the scenes in a grand NY hotel, from the author of the Madeline books Picture David Sedaris writing Kitchen Confidential about the Ritz in New York in the 1920s, which had the style and charm of The Grand Budapest Hotel… In this charming and uproariously funny hotel memoir, Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide—the thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz—a luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter in the 1920s. With equal parts affection and barbed wit, he uncovers the everyday chaos that reigns behind the smooth facades of the gilded dining room and banquet halls. In hilarious detail, Bemelmans sketches the hierarchy of hotel life and its strange and fascinating inhabitants: from the ruthlessly authoritarian maître d'hôtel Monsieur Victor to the kindly waiter Mespoulets to Frizl the homesick busboy. Illustrated with his own charming line drawings, Bemelmans' tales of a bygone era of extravagance are as charming as they are riotously entertaining. “[Bemelmans] was the original bad boy of the NY hotel/restaurant subculture, a waiter, busboy, and restaurateur who “told all” in a series of funny and true (or very near true) autobiographical accounts of backstairs folly, excess, borderline criminality, and madness in the grande Hotel Splendide… If you like stories about old New York as I do, this classic will have you laughing out loud.” –Anthony Bourdain
Author |
: Gilbert Sorrentino |
Publisher |
: Dalkey Archive Press |
Total Pages |
: 76 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1564782786 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781564782786 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Splendide-Hôtel by : Gilbert Sorrentino
Arthur Rimbaud's invented "Splendide-Hotel," "built in the chaos of ice and of the polar night," provides the occasion for Sorrentino's imaginative meditation on letters and language. Each chapter serves as an opportunity for the author to expand on thoughts and images suggested by a letter of the alphabet, as well as to reflect upon the workings of the imagination, particularly in the art of William Carlos Williams and Arthur Rimbaud. Reminiscent of the philosophical treatise/poem "On Being Blue" by William H. Glass, "Splendide-Hotel" is a Grand Hotel of the mind, splendidly conceived.
Author |
: Gilbert Sorrentino |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 72 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811205142 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811205146 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Splendide-Hotel by : Gilbert Sorrentino
Each chapter serves as an opportunity for the author to expand on thoughts and images suggested by a letter of the alphabet, as well as to reflect upon the workings of the imagination, particularly in the art of William Carlos Williams and Arthur Rimbaud. Reminiscent of the philosophical treatise/poem On Being Blue by William H. Gass, Splendide-Htel is a Grand Hotel of the mind, splendidly conceived.
Author |
: Marie Redonnet |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 1994-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015017431787 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hotel Splendid by : Marie Redonnet
The woman who owns the once proud Hotel Splendid is burdened with the care of her sickly and selfish sisters, and is forced to battle the elements as her now-decaying hotel is about to be swallowed up by an encroaching swamp
Author |
: Ludwig Bemelmans |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780091887872 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0091887879 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hotel Bemelmans by : Ludwig Bemelmans
Bemelmans humorous account of his behind-the-scenes experiences while working as headwaiter at his Uncle's hotel.
Author |
: Ludwig Bemelmans |
Publisher |
: Pushkin Press |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2022-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781782277910 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1782277919 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hotel Splendide by : Ludwig Bemelmans
“Truly a great book—unique, invaluable and unapproachable as the gold standard of the genre… Bemelmans got there first, more frequently, and better.” —Anthony Bourdain Acerbic, colorful, and spirited stories from a bygone era: behind the scenes in a grand NY hotel, from the author of the Madeline books Picture David Sedaris writing Kitchen Confidential about the Ritz in New York in the 1920s, which had the style and charm of The Grand Budapest Hotel… In this charming and uproariously funny hotel memoir, Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide—the thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz—a luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter in the 1920s. With equal parts affection and barbed wit, he uncovers the everyday chaos that reigns behind the smooth facades of the gilded dining room and banquet halls. In hilarious detail, Bemelmans sketches the hierarchy of hotel life and its strange and fascinating inhabitants: from the ruthlessly authoritarian maître d'hôtel Monsieur Victor to the kindly waiter Mespoulets to Frizl the homesick busboy. Illustrated with his own charming line drawings, Bemelmans' tales of a bygone era of extravagance are as charming as they are riotously entertaining. “[Bemelmans] was the original bad boy of the NY hotel/restaurant subculture, a waiter, busboy, and restaurateur who “told all” in a series of funny and true (or very near true) autobiographical accounts of backstairs folly, excess, borderline criminality, and madness in the grande Hotel Splendide… If you like stories about old New York as I do, this classic will have you laughing out loud.” –Anthony Bourdain
Author |
: Marie Redonnet |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 1994-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803289510 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803289512 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Forever Valley by : Marie Redonnet
A sixteen-year old illiterate woman cares for the elderly rector of a tumbledown church in a mountain hamlet, but when the town hall across from the church is converted into a dance hall, the narrator is recruited for some of the hall's finer clientele
Author |
: Bemelmans Ludwig |
Publisher |
: Ediciones GATOPARDO SLU |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2023-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9788412740356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 8412740351 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hotel Splendide by : Bemelmans Ludwig
En estas memorias disparatadas y no poco fantasiosas, Ludwig Bemelmans nos abre las puertas del fabuloso Hotel Splendide, trasunto apenas disimulado del Ritz de Nueva York, donde trabajó como camarero en los años de euforia y desenfreno previos al crac del veintinueve. En una serie de viñetas dignas de una película de los hermanos Marx, Bemelmans inmortaliza a los limpiadores, botones y ascensoristas que se afanan (y holgazanean) en los suntuosos vestíbulos y salones donde se divierte lo más granado de la sociedad neoyorquina. Un mundo de jerarquías sociales tan rígidas como porosas, habitado por personajes inolvidables como Monsieur Victor, el despótico maître d’hôtel; Mespoulets, serio candidato a «peor camarero del mundo»; o Kalakobé, el alegre friegaplatos que evoca las leyendas de su África natal. Publicado en 1941 y convertido con el tiempo en un clásico, Hotel Splendide aporta un contrapunto irónico y desenfadado al canon literario de los locos años veinte, cuya mitología literaria tanto debe a autores como Hemingway y Scott Fitzgerald: el del personaje secundario, el observador discreto y sagaz que toma notas mientras a su alrededor suena la música y fluye el champán.
Author |
: Alastair Graham |
Publisher |
: Boxer Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1906250898 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781906250898 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Full Moon Soup by : Alastair Graham
Strange and ridiculous things happen at the Hotel Splendide when the chef takes his first sip of hot soup under the full moon.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 958 |
Release |
: 1921 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433104815844 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Landmark by :
Vols. 10- include the Union's Annual report, 9th, 11th, 16th-18th, 1929, 1936,