by Paulina Bren · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449340062
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«El hotel Barbizon» is the historical essay by Paulina Bren, published by Ediciones Paidós in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
The book reconstructs the history of New York's Barbizon Hotel, from its opening in 1927 as a refuge for the «modern woman» who wanted to make her way in the arts through the decades of the women's liberation movement. Its nearly seven hundred rooms housed ambitious young women who came to the city seeking independence; among them, Grace Kelly, Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, Liza Minnelli and Ali MacGraw. The hotel offered them a room of their own and a life free of family obligations at a time of profound social and cultural change.
Original work in English published in 2021 under the title «The Barbizon»; translation by Cecilia Fanti.
Suitable for readers interested in social history, feminism, New York culture and profiles of pioneering twentieth-century women.
