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A psychological portrait of Lisa Erdman begins with an exchange of letters between her psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud, and his colleagues, continues through her self-revealing poetry and prose, and ends with her death in the ravines at Babi Yar
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It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling,The White Hotel is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.
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