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INDEX
À l’Ombre de la Montagne 66
Absinthe House 23–4, 25
Ada 164–5
‘Adventure of the Empty House, The’ 62
All Days Are Night 249, 251
All Quiet on the Western Front 254, 257–9
Allen, Woody 129
Almost Like Spring 154–5
Am Hof 51
Ambassadors, The 177
Amman, Tobias 180
Among the Russian Youth 225
Andress, Ursula 139
Andrews, Julie 137
Anet, Claude 18–19
Annecy 18
Arch of Triumph 258
Arendt, Hannah 183, 188
Arp, Jean 110
Ascona 91, 95, 99, 103, 113, 182
Ashenden 5, 143–9
Atlas 259
Auberge de l’Ancre (see also Hotel d’Angleterre) 41
Aubonne 268–9
Auden, W.H. 51, 173–4, 227
Aurigeno 178–9
Auwi, Prince 104
Avents, Les 125
Avenue de la Paix 69, 76
‘Bahnhofstrasse’ 113
Bakunin, Mikhail 69, 71, 104, 110
Ball, Hugo 110
Barkley, Catherine 126–8
Barlach, Detective Inspector 193–7
Barnacle, Nora 108–9, 112–13, 119–20, 122
Barrucand, Victor 77, 82
Basel 1, 5, 8, 9, 99–100, 147–8, 154–5, 174–5, 208, 212, 218–20, 268, 270
Bayer 218
Beattie, Andrew 255
Beau Rivage 145
Bellevue Palace Hotel 206, 212–13, 220–21
Bely, Andrei 90
Bennett, Alan 51, 56–7
Bern 5, 58, 69, 149–52, 194, 196, 205–23
Biel 194
Bircher-Benner, Maximilian 198
Bloom, Leopold 110, 113
Blue Henrys (Blauer Heinrich) 51, 64, 67
Blumenschein, Tabea 187
Blunderer, The 173, 176
Blythe, Ronald 185
Böcklin, Arnold 258
Bohemian Spring 203–4
Bonaparte, Napoleon 7
Bond, James 138, 139–40, 265, 270
Borges, Jorge Luis 5, 254, 259–61, 266
Borromean Islands 126
Botta, Mario 191
Boulevard des Philosophes 83
Bouvier, Nicolas 2, 86, 232–9, 225
Bowles, Paul 80
Boyd, Brian 166
Brecht, Bertolt 195
Brent-Dyer, Elinor 125, 133–5
Brissago Islands 87, 126, 257
Britten, Benjamin 51
Broccoli, Albert R. 265
Brockenden, William 217
Brookner, Anita 263, 266–7
Buddenbrooks 64
Budgen, Frank 107, 114–16, 121
Bührle Foundation 116
Buol, Christian 54–5
Burgess, Anthony 111, 254, 264–6
Burgess, Guy 210
Burke, Edmund 19
Byatt, A.S. 102–3
Byron, Augusta 268
Byron, Lord (George Gordon Byron) 1, 8, 17–18, 21, 27, 29, 30, 33–43, 46–9, 126, 170, 254, 256, 266–7, 268–9, 271
Cabaret Voltaire 109–10
Caesar, Julius 7, 271
Café Odéon 110–11
Café Terrasse 111, 121
Cain, Florence 103
Cain, Major Prosper 103
Calder, Liz 181
Calvin, Jean 9, 15–17, 22, 35, 142–3
Capus, Alex 154–5
Carver, Raymond 249
Casa Camuzzi 99–100, 102
Casa Highsmith 180–82
Castle, Terry 184–5, 186
Castorp, Hans 63–7
Castorp, Joachim 63–6
Caypor, Grantley 148–9
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand 234
Cendrars, Blaise 234
Centre Dürrenmatt 191
Chabrol, Claude 182
Chalet School in Exile, The 134
Chalet School in Oberland, The 134
Chalet School series 125, 133–5
Chamber Music 114
Chambéry 18–19
Chamonix 48
Chaplin, Charlie 119, 161, 253, 262, 267
Château de Chillon 40, 42, 266
Château de Muzot 256
Childe Harold 21, 27, 42, 48
Children’s Book, The 102–3
Chillon College 41
Ciba-Geigy 218
Cimitière des Rois 261
Circe 115
Clairmont, Allegra 48
Clairmont, Claire 1, 32, 33, 34–5, 42, 48
Clare, Lord (John Fitzgibbon) 21
Clemenceau, Georges 77
Clockwork Orange, A 264
Cocteau, Jean 161
Colum, Padraic 118
Conan Doyle, Adrian 62
Conan Doyle, Arthur 4, 51, 59–62, 67
‘Confederates, The’ 261
Confessions 17, 23, 25, 44
Connery, Sean 138
Connolly, Pete 98
Conrad, Joseph 5, 28, 70, 71, 82–6, 143, 148, 208
Constant Gardener, The 218–20, 270
Cornwell, Ronnie 206
Côtes aux Fées 25
Crespi, Countess Vivian Stokes 164
Crime and Punishment 82
Crispin, Jessa 228
Cruel Way, The 224, 228
Dada 103, 110, 149
‘Dark Pleasures’ 76
Davies, Scrope 48
Davis, Miles 167
Davos 4, 49, 50–67, 128, 217, 259, 268
de Botton, Alain 110
de Calry, Count Robert Louis Magawly-Cerati 163
de Moerder, Augustin 82
de Moerder, Nathalie 72–3
de Moerder, Nathalie Eberhardt 70–71, 75
de Moerder, Vladimir 82
de Roulet, Daniel 3, 241, 248–9, 252
de S, Madame 6
de Saint Germain, Baron Maurice 233
de Stäel, Madame 43
de Warens, Françoise-Louise 18–20, 21
Death in Venice 62, 63, 64
Delon, Alain 182
Demangeot, Catherine 161
Demons, The 71, 82
Denissenko, Colonel Vassily 215
Dennix, Ernan Forbes 140
Dents du Midi 159, 170
Dépardieu, Gérard 182
Deripaska, Oleg 221–2
Despair 163
Dessaix, Robert 82, 181
Diaghilev, Sergei 161
Dickens, Charles 2, 170, 207
Dietrich, Marlene 258
Dimanche à la montagne, Un 248–9
Diver, Dick 128–32, 264
Diver, Nicole Warren 129–32
Dolder Grand 216–18
Doolan, Paul 120–21
Dornach 88–90
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 70–71, 82, 83
Double 249
Douglas, Norman 80–81, 96
Dr Fischer of Geneva 262
–4
Dr. No 139
Dracula 47
du Gard, Roger Martin 226
Dubliners 109
Duino Elegies 255
Dulles, Allen 210, 218, 220, 221
Duncan, Isadora 92, 98–9, 102
Duncan, Raymond 98
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich 2, 6, 60, 111, 143, 149, 152, 189–204, 208, 212, 214, 241, 245–6, 248, 251, 264
Earthly Powers 264
‘Easter Rain’ 163
Eberhardt, Isabelle 2, 70–82, 86
Ehnni, Slimene 77, 81, 82
Eliot, T.S. 133, 170, 254
Elisabeth (Sisi), Empress of Austria 71–2, 119, 145
Elliott, Nicholas 208, 210–11
Ellis, Havelock 54
Emden, Max 115–17
Émile 21, 22, 23
Emmenberger, Dr 196–7
End of the World News, The 111
Fahrenkamp, Emil 104
Farewell to Arms, A 125–8
Fauré, Gabriel 233
Feldman, Andrew 222
Fermor, Patrick Leigh 232
Field, Andrew 169
‘Final Problem, The’ 60–62
Finishing School 125, 135
Finnegans Wake 113, 114, 117, 119–20, 192
Fire in the Blood 218
Fischer, Dr 262–4
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 4, 122, 124, 125, 128–33, 134, 146, 149, 170, 264
Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre 128–33
Flattermann 153–4
Fleischmann, Marthe 114
Fleming, Ian 5, 60, 67, 139–43, 265
Fletcher, William 36
Flight of the Earls 9–10
Fluntern Cemetery 122
Fontaine de Vaucluse 25
Forel, Dr Oscar 132
Frankenstein 1, 30, 44–6, 85, 100, 197
Frankenstein, Victor 18, 27, 44–6
French Revolution 19, 27, 31
Freud, Sigmund 110
Friends of Bernhard, The 227
Frisch, Max 2, 143, 179, 193, 241, 244–6, 249, 251, 252, 264
Gaddafi, Hannibal 142
Gaddafi, Muammar al 142
Galiffe, Jacques Augustin 43
Gallic War 7
Garbo, Greta 258
Gasthaus Hoffnung 108–9
Gay Bride of Frankenstein 2
Geneva 5, 6, 12–18, 22, 27, 35, 68–72, 140–43, 145, 233, 237, 254, 259–60, 262–4, 270
Giono, Jean 234
Glass Bead Game, The 99, 101
Glauser, Friedrich 5, 60, 129, 143, 149–53, 195–6, 203, 208, 251, 264
Glory 163
Goddard, Paulette 258
Godwin, Fanny 48
Godwin, William 21, 31
Goetheanum 89–91
Gotthard Pass 10, 97
Grand Chalet, Rossinière 257
Grand Council, Geneva 17, 22
Grand Hôtel de Russie 68
Gräser, Gusto 91, 93, 97
The Gilded Chalet Page 32