A number of sterling hotels and hostelries provided sustenance of various sorts, as they did to their literary guests: The Three Kings in Basel; The Bellevue Palace in Bern; the Richemonde in Geneva; the Palace and the Posthotel Rössli in Gstaad; the Kulm in St Moritz; the Palace Hotel in Montreux.
A special thank-you goes to Garni Barbatè in Tegna (Ticino) and to its garden table in memory of Hannah Arendt.
Patrick Cramer and Jean-Charles Giroud were helpful and generous with the cover illustration by Hans Eggimann.
I received patient guidance in shepherding this book to completion from my editor Nicholas Brealey and his team.
Thank you to Kirsten Jaehde for accompanying me on walks in the Bernese Oberland and the Val de Travers in the footsteps of Byron, Hobhouse and Rousseau, and for help with translations.
André Ehrhard, Christophe Müller, Brigitta Louisa Merki, Professor George Lüdi and Markus Fischer proved invaluable and forthcoming with information about and memories of Fritz Zorn.
Many thanks to Peter Stamm and to Daniel de Roulet for graciously answering my questions.
Thank you to the following for reading chapters and offering insightful comments: Paul Doolan, Denis McClean, Val Carey, Hilary and Ewart Cole, Elsa Fischer, Richard Begbie, Mattias Rüegger and David Burleigh.
CREDITS
Front cover: Hans Eggimann poster for the Grand Hotel Belvédère in Davos, 1905, in A Century of Swiss Winter Sports Posters by Jean-Charles Giroud, Patrick Cramer Publisher, Geneva.
Page 0: First World War cartoon by Charles Addy, in the Lausanne satirical magazine l’Arbalète, Swiss National Library.
Page 4: Davos sanatorium patients, ca. 1910, Dokumentationsbibliothek Davos.
Page 5: Monte Verità Foundation.
Page 7: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Page 8: 2007 stamp, courtesy of the Basel Paper Museum.
Pages 12, 14, 19: postcards in the collection of Jean-Jacques Monney, La vie de Jean-Jacques Rousseau en cartes postales.
Page 16: A facsimile from Beza’s 1580 edition of icons, Hekman Digital Archive, jointly maintained at Calvin College by Hekman Library and Heritage Hall.
Page 22: Poster by Ernest Bièler for the 1905 Fête des Vignerons, Confrérie des Vignerons de Vevey.
Page 26: National Portrait Gallery of Scotland.
Page 29: Print ca. 1820 in the New York Public Library Print Collection.
Page 37: George Henry Harlow’s 1815 drawing of Byron, private collection.
Page 40: Photographer unknown. Courtesy Logan Reed, Chicago.
Page 47: In the collection of the British Library.
Pages 52, 53, 57: Bristol University Library, John Addington Symonds papers.
Page 56: Swiss bobsleigh team, Davos 1910, Wikimedia Commons.
Page 61: Strand Magazine, 1893.
Page 68: Luggage label for the Grand Hôtel de Russie in Geneva, late nineteenth century.
Page 74: Photos taken by Louis David, Geneva, 1895, Isabelle Eberhardt archive in Le Centre des Archives d’Outre-Mer, Aix-en-Provence.
Page 81: Photo attributed to Swiss photographer Jean Geiser (1848–1923), Algiers.
Page 85: 1890 Postcard of Pont des Bergues and Rousseau’s Island in Geneva.
Page 87: Three graces on Max Emden’s Brissago Islands in the 1930s. Huber Verlag (Orell Füssli).
Page 90: Rudolf Steiner Archive, Dornach.
Page 92, 94, 95, 103, 104: Monte Verità Foundation Archive.
Page 105: 1928 brochure for Emil Fahrenkamp’s Bauhaus hotel at Monte Verità.
Page 107: Sketch by Frank Budgen donated by his daughter Joan Budgen to the James Joyce Centre in Dublin.
Page 111: 1929 poster for the Café Odéon.
Page 116: Frank Budgen as the sailor on publicity material for Players Navy Cut cigarettes.
Page 117: Huber Verlag, Zürich.
Page 121: Courtesy of James Joyce Foundation, Zürich.
Page 123, 131: Vintage postcards from the Gstaad Valley collection, http://gstaadvalley.com.
Page 128: Drawings by Gordon Bryant: Zelda Fitzgerald published in Metropolitan magazine, 1922; Scott Fitzgerald published in Shadowland magazine, 1921.
Page 134: Cover art by Nina K. Brisley.
Page 136: Photo by R. Ricksel, courtesy of Widmer family, Gstaad. Page 138: Still of Sean Connery as James Bond from the 1962 film Dr. No, Eon Productions.
Page 146: W. Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden, 1966 Avon paperback edition.
Page 150: Glauser collection, Swiss Literary Archives, Bern.
Page 151: Matto Regiert by Friedrich Glauser, Jean Christophe-Verlag, 1936.
Page 154: David Herrliberger’s 1761 copper engraving of the Rhine at Basel, from Hermann Spiess-Schaad: David Herrliberger. Zürcher Kupferstecher und Verleger 1697–1777. Verlag Hans Rohr: Zürich 1983.
Page 157: Statue of Vladimir Nabokov in Montreux by Alexandre & Philipp Rukavishnikov.
Page 160: Horst Tappe’s 1965 photograph of Vladimir Nabokov with butterfly net, © Horst Tappe/Lebrecht Music & Arts.
Pages 172, 175: © Swiss Literary Archives, Bern.
Pages 174, 187: Swiss Literary Archives, Bern.
Page 180: Photo © F. J. Goodman. Swiss literary archives, Bern.
Page 184: Photo © Rolf Tietgens. Swiss literary archives, Bern.
Page 189: Still from The Pledge (1958): Praesens-Film, Central Cinema Company Film (CCC) et al.
Page 191: Pino Musi © Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel.
Page 193: Still from the BBC 1961 production of The Judge and His Hangman, © BBC.
Page 202: Photo of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1979: Peter Friedli, Bern/Archives littéraires suisses, courtesy of Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel.
Page 205: Map by Matthäus the Elder in Flugbild der Schweizer Stadt, 1963, Kümmerly & Frey, Geographischer Verlag, Bern.
Page 207: Photo by Deborah Elliott.
Page 214: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF).
Page 216: Photo by Peter Hebeisen, © Dolder Hotel AG.
Pages 224, 226: Photos © Fonds Ella Maillart/Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne.
Page 227: Photo by Esther Gambaro, © Fonds Marie-Louise Bodmer-Preiswerk.
Page 228: Courtesy of Monacensia Literary Archive and Library, Munich.
Page 233: Photo © Fonds Nicolas Bouvier/Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne.
Page 240: Photo © A. Hollmann, 1982.
Page 242: Artist unknown, courtesy of Swiss National Library.
Page 246: Courtesy of Max Frisch archive, Max Frisch Foundation, ETH-Bibliothek, Zürich.
Page 248: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF).
Page 250: Photo courtesy of Gaby Gerster.
Page 253: Statue by British sculptor John Doubleday, photo © Bruce Whitehill.
Page 256: German History in Documents and Images (GHDI), German Historical Institute, Washington, DC.
Page 257: Postcard of le Grand Chalet at Rossinière ca. 1910, photographer unknown.
Page 265: Photo by Graham Wood/Daily Mail/Rex Features.
Page 267: 1952 poster for Lac Léman Compagnie Générale de Navigation, designed by Samuel Henchosz (1905-1976).
Back cover:
Top l. to r.: James Joyce photographed by Alex Ehrenzweig in Zürich in 1915 (Google Images); Jean-Jacques Rousseau as a youth, 1902 postcard in the private collection of Jean-Jacques Monney; 1815 sketch of Lord Byron by George Henry Harlow, private collection; Hermann Hesse photographed in 1935 by his son Martin; Ian Fleming in his study in 1958.
Middle l. to r.: Patricia Highsmith photograph © F. J. Goodman, courtesy of the Swiss Literary Archives, Bern; Hotel Byron at Villeneuve, nineteenth-century poster; Elinor M. Brent-Dyer’s Chalet School in the Oberland (1952) with cover art by Nina K. Brisley; 1964 Reprint Society’s edition of Ian Fleming’s Thrilling Cities.
Bottom l. to r.: Luggage sticker for the Hotel de Russie in Geneva; Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1979, Peter Friedli, Bern/Archives littéraires suisses, courtesy of Cen
tre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel; Nicolas Bouvier on the road to Afghanistan, courtesy of Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne; H.G. Wells photographed by George Charles Beresford in 1920, National Portrait Gallery; Wells’s The World Set Free with cover art by Caspar David Friedrich; 1921 drawing of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Gordon Bryant.
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