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'The Hotel Swiss-Touring is the refuge for a group of cosmopolitan characters who come together in Switzerland after the Second World War. Their object is to conceal themselves from money-hungry governments and hostile master races. But their common purpose doesn't prevent a microcosm of jealousies, spitefulness, vindictiveness and mistrust from developing among the small group, all under the relentless eye of Madame Bonnard. ' (Publication summary)
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Copyright page reads, 'Part of The Little Hotel has been published as a short story entitled The Woman in the Bed in Meanjin Quarterly'.
Contents
- Introduction, single work criticism
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Fending off Doomsday : Christina Stead’s Response to Postwar, Democratic Europe
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 9 no. 2 2018;'The article offers an overview of Stead’s response to the bourgeois social order, with special emphasis on her satiric commentary after the Second World War. In particular, Stead’s interest in covert statement and the role of Lenin’s seminal theses on the rentier class and imperialism are traced in The Little Hotel to reveal Stead’s unrelenting espousal of communism and her apparent certainty that the capitalist order was facing imminent overthrow.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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The Hunted Months
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2016;
— Review of The Little Hotel : A Novel 1973 single work novel -
Christina Stead : Her Luck
2013
single work
essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 72 no. 3 2013; (p. 66-78) -
'The Rest Flies Down the Wind' : Complexities of Late Style in the Work of Christina Stead
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 253-257) -
Christina Stead and the Synecdochic Scam : The Little Hotel
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 2 no. 2003; (p. 13-28) The article reviews Stead's scholarship and gives a close reading of The Little Hotel, discussing the use of synecdoche to 'portray the economic, sexual, and gender structures' of society and viewing the novel 'through the lenses of two contemporary theorists of masculinity, Australian sociologist Bob Connell and the late French post-structural theorist, Pierre Bourdieu' (p.13).
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Australia's Literary Gulliver
1974
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 7 September 1974; (p. 39)
— Review of House of All Nations 1938 single work novel ; The Salzburg Tales 1934 selected work short story ; The Little Hotel : A Novel 1973 single work novel -
[Review] The Little Hotel
1974
single work
review
— Appears in: The Spectator , 1 June 1974; (p. 678)
— Review of The Little Hotel : A Novel 1973 single work novel -
[Review] The Little Hotel
1974
single work
review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 18-24 October 1974; (p. 20)
— Review of The Little Hotel : A Novel 1973 single work novel -
[Review] The Little Hotel
1974
single work
review
— Appears in: New Statesman , 14 June 1974; (p. 856)
— Review of The Little Hotel : A Novel 1973 single work novel -
[Review] The Little Hotel
1974
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 September 1974; (p. 15)
— Review of The Little Hotel : A Novel 1973 single work novel -
Christina Stead and the Synecdochic Scam : The Little Hotel
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 2 no. 2003; (p. 13-28) The article reviews Stead's scholarship and gives a close reading of The Little Hotel, discussing the use of synecdoche to 'portray the economic, sexual, and gender structures' of society and viewing the novel 'through the lenses of two contemporary theorists of masculinity, Australian sociologist Bob Connell and the late French post-structural theorist, Pierre Bourdieu' (p.13). -
'The Rest Flies Down the Wind' : Complexities of Late Style in the Work of Christina Stead
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 253-257) -
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Christina Stead : A Biography
Port Melbourne
:
Heinemann
,
1993
Z202981
1993
single work
biography
'Like the author herself, Christina Stead’s novels were challenging and engrossing. Raised by a narcissistic father, Stead left for London at the age of twenty-six and soon met William Blake, a writer, broker, and Marxist political economist who became her life partner. His personal ambitions and their politics resulted in a nomadic existence, with Stead sidestepping the traditional feminine role in exchange for a career. She struggled to find an audience for her work, however, only succeeding late in life with the reissue of The Man Who Loved Children. Hazel Rowley’s richly detailed and even-handed biography spans Stead’s life, expertly blending her encoded personal papers with interviews of her closest confidants. Masterfully written and researched, Christina Stead is a fascinating chronicle of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Open Road ed.)
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Christina Stead
London
:
Macmillan
,
1987
Z362294
1987
single work
criticism
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Christina Stead's Unforgettable Dinner-Parties
1979
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 39 no. 1 1979; (p. 28-45)
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