This article accompanies the fable
Kama Sutra


Hesse in the Swiss Alps

Hesse moved to Montagnola on Lake Lugano in the Ticino canton of Switzerland in 1919 and he lived there for most of his life.  Drawn to the cool mountain air and the remoteness, Hesse became Swiss by citizenship in 1924.  Hesse is the world’s most widely read German-language author and one of his houses (Camuzzi House) contains a Hesse museum (since 1997).  Linking back to the Beatles, George Harrison stayed here for health reasons.

This is the same view today.

The top picture evokes one of the most famous German Romantic paintings, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (1818):