DH Lawrence traverse la Suisse à pied vers 1913-1916

DH Lawrence traverse la Suisse à pied vers 1913-1916
Voir Twilight in Italy, les deux derniers chapitres (voir ci-dessous, version en ligne)

L'itinéraire est à pied près comme suit:

Vient de Munich
Irschenhausen (à contrôler)
Uberlingen (à contrôler)
Lac de Constance (dans le texte Twilight in Italy)
Schaffhausen
Chutes du Rhin
Baden
Vallée du Rhin
Le village de frontière haut sur une rive du Rhin
Zurich
Bateau direction sud-est sur le lac
Sud direction Schwyz, Einsiedeln
Village des Italiens
Rigi
Lucerne
Göschenen
Andermatt
Gothard
Airolo
Bellinzona
Lugano
Lac de Lugano jusqu'à Chiasso
Chiasso
Como
Ensuite, train jusqu'à Milan.

Il a fait, semble-t-il un autre itinéraire à pied (que l'on peut suivre à travers sa correspondance) en 1928, sud-nord comme suit:

Aosta
St Bernard (passe une nuit à l'hospice)
Martigny
Visp
Zermatt (excursion en train)
Brigue
Vallée de Conches
Col du Grimsel
Meiringen
Interlaken

(Source: D.H. Lawrence, Dying Game, 1922-1930
By David Ellis)

Et il a fait des séjours en Suisse
dont voici quelques adresses:

Château Beau Site, les Diablerets
Grand Hôtel, Chexbres
Hôtel National, Gstaad
Kesselmatte, Gsteig b. Gstaad
Gsteig

(Source: D.H. Lawrence, Dying Game, 1922-1930
By David Ellis)



Twilight in Italy by D.H. Lawrence

Text by D.H. Lawrence about a walk North-South, from Munich in Germany to Milano in Italy with, in the two last chapters, the description of his itnerary across Switzerland

on line



The Crucifix Across the Mountains
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41tw/chapter1.html
The imperial road to Italy goes from Munich across the Tyrol, through Innsbruck and Bozen to Verona, over the mountains. Here the great processions passed as the emperors went South, or came home again from rosy Italy to their own Germany.

On the Lago di Garda
1
THE SPINNER AND THE MONKS
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41tw/chapter2.1.html
The Holy Spirit is a Dove, or an Eagle. In the Old Testament it was an Eagle; in the New Testament it is a Dove.

And there are, standing over the Christian world, the Churches of the Dove and the Churches of the Eagle. There are, moreover, the Churches which do not belong to the Holy Spirit at all, but which are built to pure fancy and logic; such as the Wren Churches in London.

The Churches of the Dove are shy and hidden: they nestle among trees, and their bells sound in the mellowness of Sunday; or they are gathered into a silence of their own in the very midst of the town, so that one passes them by without observing them; they are as if invisible, offering no resistance to the storming of the traffic.

2
THE LEMON GARDENS
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41tw/chapter2.2.html
The padrone came just as we were drinking coffee after dinner. It was two o’clock, because the steamer going down the lake to Desenzano had bustled through the sunshine, and the rocking of the water still made lights that danced up and down upon the wall among the shadows by the piano.

3
THE THEATRE
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41tw/chapter2.3.html

4
SAN GAUDENZIO
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41tw/chapter2.4.html

5
THE DANCE
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41tw/chapter2.5.html

6
IL DURO
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41tw/chapter2.6.html

7
JOHN
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41tw/chapter2.7.html

Italians in Exile
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41tw/chapter3.html
When I was in Constance the weather was misty and enervating and depressing, it was no pleasure to travel on the big flat desolate lake.

When I went from Constance, it was on a small steamer down the Rhine to Schaffhausen. That was beautiful.

It was afternoon when I set out to walk from the Falls to Italy, across Switzerland.

The Return Journey (this is the main chapter about Switzerland)
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41tw/chapter4.html
It is a sad and gloomy thing to travel even from Italy into France. But it is a joyful thing to walk south to Italy, south and west. It is so. And there is a certain exaltation in the thought of going west, even to Cornwall, to Ireland. It is as if the magnetic poles were south-west and north-east, for our spirits, with the south-west, under the sunset, as the positive pole. So whilst I walk through Switzerland, though it is a valley of gloom and depression, a light seems to flash out under every footstep, with the joy of progression.

It was Sunday morning when I left the valley where the Italians lived. I went quickly over the stream, heading for Lucerne.


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