An account of a pilgrimage amid the sacred and the profane through the cemeteries of the Swiss Confederation, to pay tribute to the memory of illustrious figures from the worlds of poetry, literature, religion, painting, fashion, sport, philanthropy, cinema and psychoanalysis.
From the grave of Rainer M. Rilke in Raron to Zurich, where Carl G. Jung is buried, all while tracking down the delightful Migrolinos. Against this backdrop lies a country suspended between cliché and revelation, a Switzerland that is only seemingly familiar, the details of which are brought into focus through the photographs of Louis De Belle.
Rosa Matteucci is an Italian writer. Born in 1960 in Orvieto, she lives in Genoa. She made her debut in 1998 with the novel Lourdes (Adelphi, winner in 1999 of the Bagutta Prize for a Debut Work and the Grinzane Cavour Prize – Young Debut Author Section). She has contributed to various newspapers; in 2012 she won the Guido Carletti Journalism Prize for a feature on Romania published in the magazine Sette, an insert of the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Louis De Belle (born 1988) is a photographer based in Milano. He studied at the Politecnico di Milano (BA) and Bauhaus–Universität Weimar (MFA). His photographs have been exhibited in museums such as KINDL Center for Contemporary Art in Berlin and Triennale di Milano, and published by newspapers including The New York Times and Die Zeit.
