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"A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum's celebrated novel, a Weimar-era bestseller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Dr. Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby, discreetly inquiring at the desk if the letter he's been awaiting for years has arrived. Then there is Grusinskaya, a great ballerina now fighting a losing battle not so much against age as against her fear of it, and Gaigern, a sleek professional thief, who may or may not be made for each other. Herr Preysing also checks in, the director of a family firm that isn't as flourishing as it appears, who would never imagine that Kringelein, his underling, a timorous petty clerk he's bullied for years, has also come to Berlin, determined to live at last now that he's received a medical death sentence. All these characters and more, with their secret fears and hopes, come together and come alive in the pages of Baum's delicious and disturbing masterpiece"--… (altro)
Grand Hotel takes place in interwar Berlin, following a cast of characters who are staying in, work at, or otherwise pass through the eponymous luxury hotel: a playboy baron who moonlights as a gentleman thief, an ageing and distraught ballerina, a disfigured war veteran doctor, and more. Vicki Baum does a great job at conjuring up the whirl of life in Weimar Berlin and, on the whole, of balancing the froth and the humorous observations with more elegiac moments. There are places where the pacing sags, and towards the last third of the novel some of the plot points got a bit too schmaltzy/pulpy for me. Still, a page-turner right towards the end. ( )
Los personajes más fascinantes hacen girar la puerta del Grand Hotel. En sus habitaciones descansa la famosa Grusinskaia, una atormentada bailarina de ballet que vive sus últimos días de éxito; el arruinado barón Gaireng, que pretende a partes iguales a la caprichosa dama y a su valioso collar de perlas; Kringelein, un humilde contable para quien dilapidar de su dinero se convertirá, irónicamente, en una cuestión de vida o muerte y, por último, el pobre doctor Otternschlad, que calma la ausencia de correspondencia a su nombre con inyecciones de morfina. Todos ellos transitan el vestíbulo del Grand Hotel mientras un agitado Berlín se prepara para la segunda gran guerra.
Ich habe schon einige Romane gelesen, die in Hotels spielten und liebe es, wie dort unterschiedliche Menschen (Gäste und Personal) zusammengeführt werden, die häufig wenig mehr gemeinsam haben als die Tatsache, dass sie zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt im selben Hotel wohnen. Diesen wahrscheinlich ersten Roman dieses Genres mit seinen schillernden Figuren vor der Kulisse des Berlins in den 20erjahren habe ich mit großem Genuss gelesen.
Ich bin schon sehr gespannt darauf, weitere Bücher dieser Autorin für mich zu entdecken. ( )
"El portero parecía algo descompuesto cuando salió del locutorio número 7; buscó su gorra, que había dejado sobre un radiador de la sala de teléfonos...."
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In the preface to her posthumously published memoirs, It Was All Quite Different, written in 1960, the last year of her life, Viennese-born writer Vicki Baum begins with a reckoning of sorts: You can live down any number of failures, but you can't live down a great success. For thirty years I've been a walking example of this truism. People are apt to forgive and forget a flop because they care little about things that aren't in the papers or on television, and a book that fails dies silently enough. But a success, moth-easten as it may be, will pop up among old movies, or as a hideous musical or ina new film version, or in a Japanese, a Hebrew, a Hindu translation - and there you are.(Introduction)
The hall porter was a little white about the gills as he came out of the No. 7 phone booth.
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Today, however, it can be seen as a badge of honor. (Introduction)
"A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum's celebrated novel, a Weimar-era bestseller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Dr. Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby, discreetly inquiring at the desk if the letter he's been awaiting for years has arrived. Then there is Grusinskaya, a great ballerina now fighting a losing battle not so much against age as against her fear of it, and Gaigern, a sleek professional thief, who may or may not be made for each other. Herr Preysing also checks in, the director of a family firm that isn't as flourishing as it appears, who would never imagine that Kringelein, his underling, a timorous petty clerk he's bullied for years, has also come to Berlin, determined to live at last now that he's received a medical death sentence. All these characters and more, with their secret fears and hopes, come together and come alive in the pages of Baum's delicious and disturbing masterpiece"--
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