Hotel Splendide

Bemelmans, Ludwig

Pushkin Press（2022/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 192 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781782277910
• DDC分類 813.6

Full Description

In this uproariously funny memoir, Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide, the luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter. With equal parts affection and barbed wit, he records 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.

Contents

CONTENTS
1.    The Animal Waiter                               7
2.    Art at the Hotel Splendide                 14
3.    The   Lost Mandolin                              23
4.   Easy Money                                        35
5.    Kalakobe                                              43
6.    A Night in Granada                             51
7.    The Hispano                                        56
8.    The Homesick Bus Boy                       62
9.    The New Suit                                        70
10.    The Ballet Visits the Magician          82
11.    The Magician Does a New Trick           89
12.    The Dreams of the Magician                96
13.   My Valet Lustgarten                          105
14.    The Banquet                                       116
15.    The   Murderer of the Splendide         129