Stephen Crane, American author famous in the late nineteenth century, is now extinct as a result of tuberculosis. He was only twenty-eight years. Cora, his partner, is determined to give him every chance and takes him to their country home in Sussex to a German clinic. former manager of a brothel called Hotel de Dream , she is now totally dedicated and notes, day after day, lines of the last novel that Crane dictates when his strength would permit. Inspired by a meeting of the author with a young transvestite, "The Boy makeup, destructive love affair between a prostitute and a young well-dressed banker, worked out with immodesty and fascination. Novel within the novel that is cut off by the pain of the writer.
Myth or reality, this last story that never saw the publication is an excellent excuse to open in December
was Stephen Crane, whose fame was one of the best paid writers of the time, and how he interacted with his contemporaries as Henry James or Conrad. Hotel de Dream is a fiction extremely well built, that piques our interest on the unknown fate of a controversial novelist. It certainly feels the passion of Edmund White for his subject: the New York gay scene in the early twentieth century, this "masked boy," he invents in the name of Crane, etc.. especially for this author's career as short as it is intriguing, given that the biographies which White drew were conducted by historians more inclined to fiction ...
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