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"The Hotel," a masterpiece by French conceptual artist Sophie Calle (1953-), is a work that explores themes of interest in and intervention in others. Calle has produced numerous works on the theme of interest in and intervention in others, such as tailing strangers and exploring their personal belongings and records. She is known as one of the most original expressive artists in contemporary art. This work, from 1981, is an important early work in which she recorded the traces of guests she saw while working as a room attendant in a Venice hotel, using photographs and text. Letters and medicines left by the bedside, half-used cosmetics, disheveled sheets, and open suitcases. From these fragmentary traces, Calle imagines the lives and emotions of strangers and leaves them as her own unique observational records. However, the subject of this book is not the guests themselves, but our own desire to know others. This work, which shakes the boundaries between record and speculation, fact and fiction, observation and intrusion, sharply raises the question of what privacy is, while at the same time revealing the essence of human curiosity. This is the definitive edition, featuring previously unpublished illustrations and a new binding.