The transformations of the Swiss myth, from the Antiquity till today, through the testimony of the travellers who have come from the whole world. Montaigne answers to Erasmus, Rousseau converses with Voltaire, Goethe plays opposite Gibbon, Tolstoy was succeeded by Dostoyevski, Nietzsche and Hermann Hesse.

Authors, works, portraits, map of Swiss languages, and Swiss Literature links.

A description of literature in Switzerland's German, French, Italian and Romansh-speaking regions by the Swiss embassy in Washington DC.