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    David Lodge's short story "Hotel des Boobs" uses metafictional techniques to examine the relationship between fiction and reality. It follows a writer who is staying at a hotel in the French Riviera and writing stories about the other guests. The story has two intertwining levels - the actual characters the writer observes, and the fictional characters he creates in his stories. A key moment is when the writer loses his manuscript pages to the wind, representing the fear that readers may not understand the artificiality of fiction. Through symbols like breasts and sunglasses, Lodge explores how fiction both reflects and critiques reality.

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    David Lodge's short story "Hotel des Boobs" uses metafictional techniques to examine the relationship between fiction and reality. It follows a writer who is staying at a hotel in the French Riviera and writing stories about the other guests. The story has two intertwining levels - the actual characters the writer observes, and the fictional characters he creates in his stories. A key moment is when the writer loses his manuscript pages to the wind, representing the fear that readers may not understand the artificiality of fiction. Through symbols like breasts and sunglasses, Lodge explores how fiction both reflects and critiques reality.

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    David Lodge's short story "Hotel des Boobs" uses metafictional techniques to examine the relationship between fiction and reality. It follows a writer who is staying at a hotel in the French Riviera and writing stories about the other guests. The story has two intertwining levels - the actual characters the writer observes, and the fictional characters he creates in his stories. A key moment is when the writer loses his manuscript pages to the wind, representing the fear that readers may not understand the artificiality of fiction. Through symbols like breasts and sunglasses, Lodge explores how fiction both reflects and critiques reality.

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    Students: Oprea Daniela

    Zănoagă Bianca
    Group: Romanian-English
    Year: III
    Faculty of Letters
    About the author…
    „Intensity of experience is what we’re looking for, I think.” David Lodge

     A contemporary British writer.


     A novelist and theoretician, literary critic, playwright
    and screenwriter and is one of the classics in life and
    British literature.
     Characterized in his works for humor, sometimes
    even irony, sarcasm.
     He often talks about the personal life of his characters
    in a ironic way.

    Born 28 January 1935


    England
    ”Hotel des Boobs” a metafictional writing
    What is metafiction? „It is fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its
    status as an artefact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality. In providing
    a critique of their own methods of construction, such writings not only examine the fundamental structures of
    narrative fiction, they also explore the possible fictionality of the world outside the literary fictional
    text.”(Patricia Waugh ).

    BUT…
    What represents metafiction in ”Hotel de Boobs”? In ”Hotel de Boobs” metafiction it’s like a mirror, because
    when you start reading the short story, you feel like you’re plunging in to an Universe of fiction, that feels
    real, it’s an criticism addressed to the reader, when you imagine reality in to a fiction.

    Some of characteristics of the metafiction present in the short story:


     Creating backgrounds of imaginary characters;
     Surrogate author;
     Artificiality of the story (relation between fiction and reality)
     Self reflexivity;
     Self-reflexivity
    SIMBOLS OF SEPARETION:
    The book „A book was certainly basic equipment for discreet boob-watching down by
    the pool: something to peer over, or round, something to look up from, as if distracted by
    a sudden noise or movement, at the opportune moment, just as the bird a few yards away
    slipped her costume off her shoulders, or rolled on to her back.” for Harry is a tool for
    hiding his intention of peeping women`s breasts.
    The title ”Hotel de Boobs” reflex the content of the text.
    The sunglasses „Another essential item was a pair of sunglass, as dark as possible, to
    conceal the precise direction of one’s gaze.”, are hiding the author, that’s a metafictional
    statement, I don’t want for you, the reader, to see the author because I don’t want you to
    be obsess with the author, I want you to work with the text, not the author.
    Windows, curtains appear as symbol of separation, he hide like the ”Peeping Tom”.
    About the short story..
    The two half of the short story are mirror imagines, are similar but not identical because they
    belong to two different dimension both are fictionary because are literary text, but one is actual
    and the other additionally/imaginary:

    The first part is concentrated about on Harry and The second part’s focal point is a writer,
    Brenda, a couple, who came to French Riviera who comes to same Hotel in Riviera with
    during their summer holiday. his wife and writes stories about the
    residents of the hotel.

    David Lodge short story presents two levels in revers the other characters are characters inside the story that author writes.
    Characters

    The actual The second level/


    level/the frame the embedded

    The Pierre Harry Antoine


    author

    Author’s Brenda
    wife
    Loss of the manuscript
    „It made the pine trees in the hotel grounds shiver and hiss, raised wavelets on the surface of the pool, knocked over several umbrellas,
    and whirled the leaves of the author’s manuscript into the air.”

    • Is the central incident of the short story, it’s a break, a analyze about
    his work, because someone as a child can find it and read it, and
    maybe they do not understand at all.
    • The fear that the author feels has to do with the high probability of the
    readers recognize themselves in fiction.
    • Also has to do with the uneducated reader whom do not expects events
    chronological and logic to be reshuffled, so the children bring the
    pieces of paper back without having them coherent overall picture of
    all story.
    Symbolism of the breasts
    -in terms of metafiction-
    • sexuality
    • fertility
    • creativity
    • procreation
    • motherhood
    • the growth of the next generation

    The cultural proof for the obsession with breasts it is in using of this many terms as: boobs, tits,
    breasts, pins, bristols, knockers, bust in more elegant or offensive terms.
    In the short story, the woman is transformed into an object characterised by the shape or size
    of their breasts.
    In conclusion ,”Hotel des
    Boobs” is a writting that
    provokes your thinking
    through the amazing way
    of structuring and
    symbols that makes the
    story even more attractive
    to
    the reader.

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