Dream Hotel

Year of the Monkey

★ Rock Poet Laureate Patti Smith enters her seventies as witness to the most gifted and creative voice of our time!
As one of America's most legendary artists, Patti Smith represents an entire era of rock aesthetics and embodies a crucial voice in contemporary pop culture. Literature and writing are also key words in her life, and she won the National Book Award for her memoir.
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 historically profound, setting a new benchmark for artists' writing.
★Facing the fragility and beauty of life in aging, it forms a perfect mirror for contrasting reading with "Just Kids". If "Just Kids" is an elegy for youth in the 1970s, "Dream Hotel" is a poetic testimony of the turbulent years of the 21st century. With the wisdom of age and the immortal rock heart, she revisits history, thinks about the years, and responds to the specific reality of history and the present.
★Punk is getting old, the world is sinking, she continues on the road in the turbulent years, searching for the eternal fire of life in the loss. Rock and roll has never belonged only to young people, 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, but still maintain their innocence and aspirations; still record life with the eyes of a child, fight the world with the attitude of a rocker, and rekindle love and dreams with the heart of a poet.
★Old Alice's wanderings 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.
On a classic American road trip, Patty drifts between dreams and reality, fairytale imagery and historical relics, using a year-long journey as a thread to connect glimpses of literature, art, history, and reality. In a year of widespread disillusionment, she picks up hope everywhere with a traveler's heart.

★Poetic flashbacks where memory reflects reality, a unique style that breaks the wall between fiction and non-fiction;
Also included are precious images taken by Patti Smith herself, and a new afterword has been added to the 2020 edition. In this book, Patti Smith once again demonstrates her extraordinary talent for literary creation. She moves effortlessly between fantasy and memory, back and forth between fiction and reality, blending real-life experiences with her own monologue, using both lines of thought to explore 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 craftsmanship + imported pure inner paper, metallic silver + leather white two-color version is shipped randomly, perfect for gift giving/collection, the white leather cover version has subtle leather texture, the actual object is clean and elegant, like a dream, and perfectly fits the text;
The silver-gray leather version is full of punk aesthetics, and the actual product has a matte metallic texture.
Designed by emerging designer Shanchuan!
【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 uncanny connections everywhere, and she drifts on her words—and the reader, along with them.
—The New Yorker Magazine Poignant and gorgeous, this is a drifting voyage through Patti Smith's dreams and life, weaving fiction and reality, imagined characters and real people. She writes of staring at her face reflected in the toaster: "I look young and old at the same time." This aptly describes her spirit.
—The New York Times
A moving, one-of-a-kind memoir, chronicling a transformative year by one of the most gifted and creative voices of our generation. … Her musical achievements often overshadow her other accomplishments, but every page of this book is filled with exceptional writing, a constant reminder that Patti Smith is a brilliant writer and poet, winner of the 2010 National Book Award. In her brilliant writing, even a simple glimpse of a New York winter day can sparkle with beautiful poetry. …
—National Public Radio (NPR)
If there's one thing we could add to the American literary canon, which is filled with road-trip memoirs, it's the voice of Patti Smith.
——Town & City Magazine…The punk poet’s memoir is like unfolding her past photos one by one in her New York apartment, each one a talisman on her life journey.
—Entertainment Weekly Magazine There is absolute truth in this book, embellished with poetry...amazing and soothing.
—PopMatters magazine. Patti Smith began writing "Dream Hotel" on New Year's Day 2016, chronicling a year of upheaval marked by aging, the loss of friends, and a general sense of disillusionment. Her description of the American West interweaves with her own monologue, blurring the lines between fact and fiction. Her obsessive attention to detail permeates this fusion of fact and fiction, creating a surreal experience. With her unique poetic touch, Patti Smith recounts the journey of finding meaning in turbulent times. A moving story.
"One of the best American memoirs," according to Vogue. "Dream Hotel" is funny and eccentric, lucid and sad, and it's also a record of Patti Smith's journey through California, Arizona, and Kentucky. It's a dreamlike account, imaginative conversation, and a meditation on Patti's life and two close friends who passed away during her writing process: playwright Sam and music producer Sandy. This book is the ultimate fusion of Patti Smith's penetrating writing maturity and the wild, improvisational freeform of her music.
——Vanity Fair magazine Since my youth, she has been that shining star, the embodiment of the untamed image of female creators.
—Jennifer Egan Magical and gorgeous—full of the unique artistic flavor that Patti Smith's prose always has.
—The Guardian
A moving book—a journey of physical and spiritual wandering... As Patti Smith approaches her 70th birthday, she neither complains nor avoids. She discovers art everywhere, maintaining a pioneering spirit. As this unconventional poet and National Book Award winner puts it in her book, "I'm still busy with my work. It's the most I can do while I'm 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 good 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 hotel in California and the Arizona desert, her best friend's intensive care unit and a farm in Kentucky, and above her head, a hotel sign invites Patty to play a game. The memories of Ayers Rock and Bolaño's former residence always pull 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 repeats itself, yet it moves forward amidst change. Faced with surprise, sadness, and disillusionment, Patty "strides into new frontiers" with her unwavering spirit of exploration. Her moving writing and sharp vision constantly reveal her longing for a better world.

2022-09-01

广西师范大学出版社

288

9787559849908