The Gilded Chalet

by Padraig Rooney

  9. Ziegler, The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead, p. 19.

  10. Ibid., p. 36.

  11. Ibid., p. 71.

  12. Ibid., p. 192.

  13. Ibid., pp. 49–50.

  14. Dulles, The Craft of Intelligence, pp. 202–3.

  15. Le Carré’s Afterword to Macintyre, A Spy among Friends.

  16. A Perfect Spy, p. 194.

  17. Ibid., p. 194.

  18. Ibid., pp. 194–5.

  19. Ibid., pp. 208–9.

  20. Ibid., p. 219.

  21. Smiley’s People, p. 254.

  22. Ibid., p. 255.

  23. Ibid., p. 259.

  24. Le Carré, ‘The Unbearable Peace’, Granta, 35, Spring 1991, p. 18.

  25. Ibid., p. 52.

  26. Ibid., p. 72.

  27. Ibid., p. 56.

  28. Ibid., p. 71.

  29. Le Carré, The Night Manager, p. 19.

  30. Interview with Jon Snow, 2011.

  31. Ziegler, The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead, p. 265.

  32. The Night Manager, p. 29.

  33. Cited in Beattie, The Alps: A Cultural History, p. 164.

  34. The Craft of Intelligence, p. 54.

  35. Le Carré, Democracy Now interview, broadcast 11 October 2010.

  36. The documentary exposes the protective patent legislation that keeps the cost of retroviral drugs artificially high so that western pharmaceutical companies turn a profit and only rich people can afford them.

  37. Article by Ben Goldacre in The Guardian Weekly, 25 April 2014.

  38. Democracy Now interview.

  39. Le Carré, The Constant Gardener, p. 362.

  40. Ibid., pp. 363–4.

  41. Ibid., p. 504.

  42. Markus Haefliger, reviewing The Constant Gardener on swissinfo.ch, 15 January 2001.

  43. Democracy Now interview.

  44. The Constant Gardener, p. 364.

  45. The Craft of Intelligence, p. 216.

  46. Ibid., p. 210.

  47. Le Carré, Our Kind of Traitor, p. 245ff.

  48. The Independent, 26 October 2008.

  49. Our Kind of Traitor, p. 157.

  50. Ibid., p. 273.

  51. Ibid., p. 300.

  13: On the Road

  1. Obituary of Ella Maillart, The Independent, 10 April 1997.

  2. Roger Martin du Gard in dedicating one of his books to her.

  3. In Carson McCullers’ unfinished autobiography Illumination and Night Glare.

  4. Edward Mendelson, ‘The Secret Auden’, New York Review of Books, 20 March 2014.

  5. Foreword by Jessica Crispin to Maillart, The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939.

  6. Maillart, The Cruel Way, pp. 3–4.

  7. Ibid., p. 10.

  8. Ibid., p. 33.

  9. Ibid., p. 40.

  10. Ibid., p. 45.

  11. Ibid., p. 75.

  12. Ibid., p. 89.

  13. Ibid., p. 117.

  14. Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey, p. 47.

  15. Ibid., p. 195.

  16. Ibid., p. 59.

  17. The Cruel Way, p. 197.

  18. ‘La Suisse – le pays qui n’a pas tiré un coup de feu’ in Schwarzenbach, De monde en monde: Reportages 1934–1942, p. 253. My translation.

  19. Ibid., p. 266. My translation.

  20. Laut, Nicolas Bouvier: L’oeil qui écrit, p. 27, my translation.

  21. Bouvier, L’usage du monde, pp. 26–7, my translation.

  22. Ibid., p. 36.

  23. Ibid., p. 29.

  24. Ibid., pp. 37–8.

  25. Ibid., pp. 184–5, 194.

  26. Ibid., p. 196.

  27. Ibid., pp. 218–19.

  28. Ibid., p. 220.

  29. Bouvier, Oeuvres, p. 950. My translation.

  30. Ibid., p. 970.

  31. Ibid., p. 973.

  32. Laut, Nicolas Bouvier, p. 287. My translation.

  33. From ‘Routes et Déroutes’, interviews with Nicolas Bouvier collected in Oeuvres, pp. 1271–2. My translation.

  34. The Cruel Way, p. 204.

  35. Cited in Roger Perret’s Afterword to All the Roads Are Open, p. 137. Photo by Schwarzenbach in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.

  36. Highsmith’s Afterword to the 1984 reissue of The Price of Salt/Carol, p. 291.

  14: William Tell for Schools

  1. Ian Paisley’s ‘None Dare Call Him Antichrist’ sermon, Martyrs’ Memorial Free Presbyterian Church, 16 October 1988.

  2. Swiss Economics Minister Doris Leuthard speaking in 2008, designated Habsburg memorial year.

  3. ‘Emigrants’, Frisch’s speech on being awarded the George Büchner Prize, 1958, in Frisch, Novels, Plays, Essays, p. 332.

  4. Dürrenmatt’s 1972 essay ‘Zur Dramaturgie der Schweiz’. My translation.

  5. ‘Wilhelm Tell: A School Text’ in Novels, Plays, Essays, pp. 126–7.

  6. ‘Emigrants’, p. 330.

  7. Sebald, A Place in the Country, p. 105.

  8. Zorn, Mars, p. 1.

  9. De Roulet, Un dimanche à la montagne, p. 23. My translation.

  10. Foreword to Novels, Plays, Essays.

  11. Stamm, Seven Years, p. 62.

  12. Novels, Plays, Essays, pp. 157–8.

  13. Peter Stamm interview with the author. My translation.

  14. Seven Years, p. 233.

  15. Stamm, All Days Are Night, p. 103.

  16. Interview with Tim Parks on www.prohelvetia.ch.

  15: The Emperor Moths

  1. ‘Geneva’ in Rousseau’s Letter to d’Alembert, and Writings for the Theatre, pp. 245–6.

  2. Beattie, A Cultural History of the Alps, p. 220.

  3. Freedman, Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, p. 455.

  4. In a letter to Baladine, February 9, 1921, quoted in ibid., p. 492.

  5. Ibid., p. 485.

  6. Reported in Maria Riva’s memoir Dietrich by Her Daughter, p. 501.

  7. See ‘Porto Ronco’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN0yr_NFRow

  8. Woodall, Borges: A Life, n.p.

  9. Cited in Williamson, Borges: A Life, p. 58.

  10. Borges, Atlas.

  11. Williamson, Borges: A Life, p. 62.

  12. Ibid., pp. 64–5.

  13. Ibid., p. 88.

  14. Borges’ letter to Spain’s Agencia Efe news agency, dated 6 May 1986.

  15. The New Yorker, 26 May 1986. Translation by Alastair Reid.

  16. Greene, J’accuse – The Dark Side of Nice, p. 7.

  17. Sherry, The Life of Graham Greene: Vol. 3, 1955–1991, p. 790.

  18. Greene, Ways of Escape, p. 300.

  19. Greene, Dr Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party, p. 9.

  20. Ibid., p. 10.

  21. Ibid., p. 10.

  22. Ibid., pp. 24–25.

  23. Ibid., p. 25.

  24. Ibid., p. 77.

  25. Ibid., p. 80.

  26. Anthony Burgess in The New York Times, 22 November 1987.

  27. New Statesman, 9 April 2013.

  28. Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, p. 384.

  29. Brookner, Hotel du Lac, pp. 7, 14.

  30. Ibid., pp. 51–2.

  31. The late Peter Cochran’s site provided invaluable comparison and commentary on Byron’s and Hobhouse’s trek through the Bernese Oberland. https://peter-cochran.wordpress.com

  32. Byron, Letters and Journals.

  33. Stamm in an interview with the author.

  34. Rousseau, Meditations of a Solitary Walker.

  35. Ibid.

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