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Von einem "unprätentiösen, geistreichen, humorvollen Blick auf die Welt" schreibt der Übersetzer André Ehrhard in seinem Nachwort, und weiter: "Rooneys Lyrik erfüllt eine zentrale Aufgabe der Dichtung: in Sprache zu fassen, woher der Wind weht. In seinen Worten: , ... to see the lie of the land ...'" Doing the Graves Among the Mozabites, among the infidel, my mother knuckles down to do the graves.She stoops to brush the sand from nameless ston...

A literary tour of Switzerland and the beguiling writers who have found inspiration there from Rousseau to the Romantics, Conan Doyle to Le Carre, Hemingway to Hesse and Highsmith.

In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on Byron and the Shelleys across Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley babysat and wrote Frankenstein. Byron dieted and penned The Prisoner of Chillon. His doctor, Polidori, was dreaming up The Vampyre. Together they put Switzerland on the map.From Rousseau to Nabokov, le Carré to Conan Doyle, Hemingway to Hesse to Highsmith, Switzerland has always provided a refuge for writers as an escape from wor...