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"Dream Hotel" Author: [US] Patti Smith Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press Original title: Year of the Monkey
"Dream Hotel" Author: [US] Patti Smith Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press Original title: Year of the Monkey
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Introduction · · · · · ·
★Pitti Smith, the poet laureate of rock, witnesses her entering her seventies. She is the most gifted and creative voice of our time!
As one of the most legendary artists in the United States, Patti Smith represents the rock aesthetics of an entire era and sings the most important voice in contemporary pop culture. At the same time, literature and writing are also the keywords of her life. She has won the National Book Award for her memoir writing.
As she entered her seventies, faced with the death of friends and family and the turmoil in the world, Patti Smith once again responded to reality through her creation, writing this memoir that is both "immediate" and has historical depth, setting a new benchmark for artists' writing.
★Looking directly at the fragility and beauty of life in aging, it is a perfect mirror image for reading in contrast with Just Kids
If "Just Kids" is an elegy for youth in the 1970s, "Dream Hotel" is a poetic testimony to the turbulent years of the 21st century. With the wisdom of age and the immortal heart of rock and roll, she revisits history, thinks about the years, and responds to the concrete reality of history and the present.
★Punk is getting old, the world is sinking, in the turbulent years she continues on the road, searching for the eternal fire of life in the loss
Rock and roll has never belonged only to the young, and punk is not just a kind of adolescent anger. In this memoir, we see for the first time how aging punks face the passage of time and the pain of life, yet still maintain their innocence and aspirations; they still record life with the eyes of a child, confront the world as a rocker, and rekindle love and dreams with the heart of a poet.
★ "Old Alice"'s wandering in wonderland, a wandering song of dreams and life, the most gentle and powerful voice in road trip literature
"Dream" and "travel" are the keywords of this book.
In the classic American road trip, Patty drifts between dreams and reality, fairy tale images and historical relics, and uses a year-long journey as a clue to connect the flashes of literature, art, history, and reality. In a year of overall disillusionment, she picks up hope everywhere with a traveler's heart.
★A poetic flashback in which memory reflects reality, a unique style that breaks the wall between fiction and non-fiction;
It also includes precious images taken by Patti Smith herself, and adds a new postscript for the 2020 edition
In this book, Patti Smith once again demonstrates her extraordinary talent for literary creation. She freely moves between fantasy and memory, shuttles back and forth between fiction and reality, integrates real experiences with her own monologue, and runs two parallel lines to find a new connection between the individual and the world.
At the same time, Patti Smith took forty-six Polaroid photos along the way, and the pictures and texts serve as footnotes to each other, weaving a poet's lucid dream.
★Traveler notebook design, high-grade color-changing leather + embossing technology + imported pure inner paper, metallic silver + leather white two-color version is shipped randomly, a good gift/collection
The white leather version has subtle leather texture, the object is clean and elegant, with a dreamlike temperament, and fits the text perfectly;
The silver-gray leather version is full of punk aesthetics, and the actual object has a matte metallic texture.
Designed by emerging designer Yamakawa!
【Media Recommendation】
Light yet magical...Dream Hotel reminds us that despair and possibility often come from the same place.
——Los Angeles Times
A lucid dream…Patti Smith sees mysterious connections everywhere, and she drifts on her words—and the reader, along with her.
—The New Yorker
Poignant and gorgeous, a drifting voyage through Patti Smith's dreams and life, interweaving fiction and reality, fantasy characters and real people. She writes of staring at her face reflected in the toaster: "I looked young and old at the same time." This is an apt description of her spirit.
—The New York Times
A moving, one-of-a-kind memoir, in which one of the most gifted and creative voices of our generation chronicles a transformative year. …Her musical achievements often overshadow her performance in other fields, but every page of this book is filled with outstanding words, constantly reminding readers that Patti Smith is a brilliant writer and poet who won the National Book Award in 2010. In her brilliant writing, a glance at a winter day in New York City can sparkle with beautiful poetry. …
-- National Public Radio (NPR)
If there is one thing we can add to the American literary canon, which is filled with road-trip memoirs, it is the voice of Patti Smith.
——Town and City Magazine
...The punk poet's memoir is like her unfolding past photos one by one in her New York apartment, each of which is a talisman on her life journey.
--Entertainment Weekly Magazine
There is absolute truth in this book, embellished with poetry…it is both stunning and soothing.
——PopMatters Magazine
Patti Smith began writing The Inn on New Year's Day 2016, chronicling a year of upheaval that brought aging, the death of friends, and general disillusionment. Her description of the American West runs parallel to her monologue, blurring the line between fact and fiction, and her obsession with details makes the fusion of fact and fiction even more surreal. Patti Smith tells the story of a journey to find meaning in turbulent times with her unique poetic touch. A moving story.
——VOGUE Magazine
One of the best American memoirs. Funny and eccentric, lucid and sad, Dream Hotel is also a record of Patti Smith's journey through California, Arizona and Kentucky. It is a dreamlike account, imaginative conversations, and meditations on Patti's relationship with two close friends who died during her writing process, playwright Sam and music producer Sandy. This book is the best result of the mature penetration of Patti's writing and the wild free form of her music.
——Vanity World Magazine
Since my youth, she has been that shining star, the embodiment of the unruly image of female creators.
—Jennifer Egan
Magical and gorgeous - full of the unique artistic atmosphere that Patti Smith's prose has always had.
——The Guardian
A moving book that depicts a journey of wandering body and soul...Patti Smith has no complaints and no escape for her upcoming 70th birthday. She finds art everywhere and maintains an open mind. This unconventional poet and winner of the National Book Award is just as she said in the book: "Still busy with my work, this is the best effort I can make while I am alive."
—The Washington Post
【Content Introduction】
"I know Sam is dead, my brother is dead, my mother is dead, my father is dead, my husband is dead, my cat is dead, my dog died in 1957 and is not alive now. And yet I still think something wonderful is going to happen. Maybe tomorrow."
After the New Year's concert at the Fillmore Theatre, Patti Smith strolled alone along the coast of Santa Cruz, about to begin a whole year of wandering.
Below her feet are a small inn in California and the Arizona desert, her best friend is in the intensive care unit and on a farm in Kentucky, and above her head, a hotel sign invites Patty to play a game. The memory of Ayers Rock and Bolaño's old house always pulls Patty in, and the road to medieval Flanders is opened in her dreams... Faced with turbulent times and the death of relatives and friends, Patty wrote this memoir that interweaves reality, imagination and memory as she entered her seventieth year of life.
Life goes round and round, but it moves forward amidst change. In the face of accidents, sadness and disillusionment, Patty "moves towards new frontiers" with her unchanging spirit of exploration, and her moving words and sharp eyes always show her desire for a better world.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Patti Smith is an American songwriter, poet, performer and visual artist. Her creative talent first emerged in the 1970s, when she made a revolutionary combination of poetry and rock music. She recorded twelve albums, among which Horses was regarded as one of the 100 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
In 2010, Smith published Just Kids, which tells his story of living in New York in the 1970s, and won the 2010 National Book Award. He later published Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, Auguries of Innocence, and M Train, which were listed on the annual best book list of major media such as The New York Times.
In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor given to artists by the French government. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Smith married Fred Sonic Smith in Detroit in 1980. They have a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jessie. Smith currently lives in New York City.
Tao Lixia
Translator, writer, photographer. She has traveled around the world with a unique perspective for many years. She has published "Traveling Separately" and "Practicing Alone" and translated "Night Flight Westward".
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