ArthurRimbaud’sinvented“Splendide-Hotel,““builtinthechaosoficeandofthepolarnight,“providestheoccasionforSorrentino’simaginativemeditationonlettersandlanguage.Eachchapterservesasanopportunityfortheauthortoexpandonthoughtsandimagessuggestedbyaletterofthealphabet,aswellastoreflectupontheworkingsoftheimagination,particularlyintheartofWilliamCarlosWilliamsandArthurRimbaud.Reminiscentofthephilosophicaltreatise/poem“OnBeingBlue“byWilliamH.Glass,“Splendide-Hotel“isaGrandHotelofthemind,splendidlyconceived.
