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Insgesamt ist dieser Ausschnitt aus dem Georaum verbunden mit einem schier unglaublichen Katalog klingender Autorennamen – darunter Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Wilhelm Heinse, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich Heine, Achim von Arnim, Friedrich Schiller, William Wordsworth, Alexandre Dumas père, Alphonse Daudet, Leo Tolstoi, Fedor M. Dostojewski, Iwan Bunin, Mark Twain, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, John Ruskin, James Fenimore Cooper, Johann Peter Hebel, D. H. Lawrence, Henry James, Samuel Butler, William Somerset Maugham, Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Rimbaud, Jeremias Gotthelf, Gottfried Keller, August Strindberg, Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, Carl Spitteler, Max Frisch, Elias Canetti.
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It can be said without overstatement: Lake Lucerne, and the encircling valleys and mountain peaks amongst which it is artfully inlaid, is demonstrably one of the capital regions on the map of European literature. As a geospatial totality, this region perfectly unifies the multiplicity of the Swiss landscape. There is a confluence of idyllic passages and lofty positions, attributable to the topographic situation of Lake Lucerne, in transition between midlands and high mountains. The farther south one goes in the direction of Gotthard, the more dramatic the landscape appears. The region thus contains the many particularities that make a geographic place a challenge to literature. This portion of geospace is connected with a virtually unbelievable catalogue of resonant names: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Wilhelm Heinse, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich Heine, Achim von Arnim, Friedrich Schiller, William Wordsworth, Alexandre Dumas, Sr., Alphonse Daudet, Leo Tolstoi, Fedor M. Dostojewski, Iwan Bunin, Mark Twain, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, John Ruskin, James Fenimore Cooper, Johann Peter Hebel, D. H. Lawrence, Henry James, Samuel Butler, W. Somerset Maugham, Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Rimbaud, Jeremias Gotthelf, Gottfried Keller, August Strindberg, Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, Carl Spitteler, Max Frisch, Elias Canetti.
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