Hotel Exilio : El Hotel Lutetia, de refugio literario a centro de poder alemán en París

Paris, 1938. In the heart of the city, the Hotel Lutetia, a renowned refuge for artists and exiles, shelters writers, painters, and travelers fleeing a Europe on the brink of collapse. Its guests include James Joyce, André Gide, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse, names that embody the intellectual splendor of an era about to vanish. Elegance, fear, and a premonition of impending catastrophe mingle within its salons. During the occupation, the Lutetia is requisitioned by the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, and transformed into a center of operations and surveillance. Officers are housed in its rooms, missions are planned, and suspects are interrogated; the Art Deco mirrors reflect uniforms, maps, and fear. After liberation, the hotel reopens its doors to welcome deportees returning from the camps. Among them are the daughters of Irène Némirovsky, searching for news of their missing mother. In its corridors, jubilation and guilt, hope and devastation mingle: a place marked by the memory of war and the reconstruction of Europe. With an immersive narrative rhythm and a profoundly human perspective, Jane Rogoyska transforms the story of the Lutetia into a masterful chronicle of 20th-century Europe: a choral narrative that blends historical rigor with literary sensibility, revealing how a single building can hold the memory of an entire era.