The Blue Hotel
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"The Blue Hotel" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). It first appeared in 1898 in two installments in Collier's Weekly, on November 26 and on December 3, 1898.[1] It subsequently was republished in the collection The Monster and Other Stories.
It is one of the most well known of the short stories in the collection The Monster and Other Stories.[citation needed] Although it appears to be a reasonably simple tale about a man who encounters trouble following a stay at the Palace Hotel, several complex themes underpin the story and define many of the overarching themes in novels like Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and more generally, Crane's corpus.[citation needed] Stylistically, the story breaks free from the norms of the period, often entering the realms of Expressionism, an unusual style to encounter in American literature.[citation needed]
Adaptations
- 1977: "The Blue Hotel", a TV movie adaptation directed by Ján Kadár
- 1999: The Coxcomb (1999 album), a musical adaptation by David Grubbs
