At times Gordon is verbose and winding - getting off the chronological track, but overall a good topic that is well written and useful for people like myself who try and do therapy.

I can't find the words for this book yet. It was ... sublime, and disturbing, and glorious, and compelling, and rich, and moving. I hope I can review it more articulately later.

I did not care for this book. It was just too dreamy and "Freudian" and too much fantasy. I never really understood the point of it.

BLURB
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 our 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.


REVIEW
I think that if I had read this book in its heyday, I'd have loved the smybolism, the imagery, the passion and the psychology, all wound into a tight little book.
Instead, I thought that it was interesting, but that the subject matter has been covered before, and more sophistically since then.

I'm gald that I read it. Its given me lots of things I want to research further, but not an earth mover.

I can't find the words for this book yet. It was ... sublime, and disturbing, and glorious, and compelling, and rich, and moving. I hope I can review it more articulately later.