ABSTRACT
The chapter takes the hotel-novel – texts such as Hotel DF, Anayurt Oteli and Chowringhee, where the hotel is the central theme of the novel, not merely the incidental background – and builds up the analysis of a number of common motifs recurring across all three texts (misogyny, Empire, history/the archive, sadness and secularism), culminating in the articulation of a lugubrious relationship between death and the hotel in literature.
