A course on location combines reading and discussing medically relevant novels that are set in that city, with walks and visits to the locations that are mentioned in the books. Courses are open to the public.
General information:
- Each course has a minimum of six and a maximum of fifteen participants.
- The prices mentioned are indications and may be subject to change depending on the amount of participants.
- Included in the price are hotels and breakfast, as well as dinner on the first and last day. Travel to and from the city is not included.
- Dates can be discussed.
- Special adjustment possible for medical doctors.
To book or for more information, email us at website@litmed.nl
Available courses
VIENNA
Duration: 6 days
Price: ~€1400 (+€150 for single room)
Novels discussed:
– Irvin Yalom: When Nietzsche wept
– Joseph Roth: Job
– Thomas Bernhard: Wittgenstein’s nephew
– Arthur Schnitzler: Dream Story & Flight into Darkness
– Stefan Zweig: Beware of pity
Places visited:
– Psychiatric art in Gugging Museum
– Kafka’s dying place
– Freud museum
– Baumgärtner Höhe
– Former university hospital, now university
PARIS 1
Duration: 6 days
Price: ~€1200 (+€200 for single room)
Novels discussed:
– Honoré de Balzac: The wild asses’s skin
– Emile Zola: Thérèse Raquin
– Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journey to the end of the night
– Andrew Miller: Pure
– Georges Simenon: The bells of Bicetre
– Marcel Proust: fragments from A la Recherche du temps perdu
– Vincent van Gogh: letters
Places visited:
– Three city walks: Marais, Quartier latin and the passages
– Musée d’Orsay
– Catacombes
– Bicetre hospital
– Auvers, Auberge Ravoux, Van Gogh walk
PARIS 2
Duration: 6 days
Price: ~€1200 (+€200 for single room)
Novels discussed:
– Per Olov Enquist: The Book about Blanche and Marie
– JK Huysmans: Against nature
– Michel Houellebecq: Submission
– Charles Beaudelaire: The flowers of evil
– Julian Barnes: The man in the red coat
– Julian Barnes: The sense of an ending
Films discussed:
– Camille Claudel (1988)
– Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)
Places visited:
– Nogent sur Seine, Camille Claudel museum
– Delacroix museum, Paris
– Bourdelle museum, Paris
– Rodin museum, Paris
– Salpétrière hospital
LÜBECK
Duration: 4 days
Price: ~€850 (+€100 for single room)
Novels discussed:
– Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks
– Thomas Mann: Tonio Kröger
– Heinrich Mann: The blue angel
Places visited:
– Thomas Mann House
– Buddenbrooks walk through Lübeck
– Visit to Travemünde
ZÜRICH AND DAVOS
Duration: 4 days
Price:~€1700 (+€400 for single room)
Novel discussed:
– Thomas Mann: The magic Mountain
Places visited:
– Literary walk through Zürich
– Visit to the grave of Thomas Mann and his last house
– Magic Mountain walk in Davos
– Kirchnermuseum Davos
POLLING AND MÜNCHEN
Duration: 4 days
Price: ~€1000 (+€100 for single room)
Novel discussed:
– Thomas Mann: Dr. Faustus
Places visited:
– Bicycle tour through Munich: the houses of Thomas Mann
– Dr. Faustus walk in Polling
LISBON
Duration: 6 days
Price: ~€1100 (+€120 for single room)
Novels discussed:
– José Saramago: The year of the death of Ricardo Reis
– Fernando Pessoa: fragments
– António Lobo Antunes: Knowledge of hell.
– Pascal Mercier: Nighttrain to Lisbon
– Erich Maria Remarque: The night in Lisbon
– Antonio Tabucchi: Pereira maintains & Requiem: a hallucination
Places visited:
– Two literary walks through Lisbon
– Saramago museum
– Prazeres graveyard
– Pessoa museum
– Tram tour through Lisbon
TRIESTE
Duration: 6 days
Price:~€1350 (+€240 for single room)
Novels discussed:
– James Joyce: The dead
– Claudio Magris: Microcosms
– Italo Svevo: As a Man Grows Older
– Italo Svevo: Confessions of Zeno
– Rainer Maria Rilke: Duino Elegies
Places visited:
– Literary walk through Trieste
– Svevo/Joyce museum
– Risiera di San Sabba
– Duino
– Miramare
ROUEN
Duration: 6 days
Price: ~€1500 (+€200 for single room)
Novel discussed:
– Julian Barnes: Flauberts parrot
– Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
– Gustave Flaubert: Bouvard and Pécuchet
– Guy de Maupassant: several stories
Places visited:
– Monet and Giverny
– Flaubert walk in Rouen
– Flaubert museum
– Flaubert pavilion
– Musée des beaux arts, Rouen