Literature and Medicine on location
In 2014 we started with a course of 6 days given on location. In many novels in the field of literature and medicine the location of the novel plays an important role. One of the finest examples is The magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. The first course we developed was Beauty, disease and decay in Venice. After that we started a second course in Vienna. The courses are a mixture of class (discussing the novels), walks through the city and visits to interesting places.
Now, in 2024, this activity has spread over 12 European cities in Dutch and 9 cities in English. The prices are reasonable and depend partly on the number of participants. More participants lowers the price. Maximum 15.
At this moment, courses in English are available in the following cities:
Vienna
6 Days
Price for 10 participants (price partly depends on the number of participants: more participants lowers the price)
1400 euro (+150 euro for 1 person per 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
Visits & walks
Psychiatric art in Gugging
Kafka’s Dying place
Freud museum
Baumgärtner Höhe
Former hospital, now university
Paris 1
6 Days
Price for 10 participants (price partly depends on the number of participants: more participants lowers the price)
1000 euro (+ 200 euro for one person per 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
Visits and walks
Three city walks: Marais, Quartier latin and The passages
Musée d’Orsay
Catacombes
Bicetre hospital
Auvers, Auberge Ravoux, Van Gogh walk
Paris 2
6 Days
Price for 10 participants (price partly depends on the number of participants: more participants lowers the price)
1000 euro (+ 200 euro for one person per room)
Novels and films 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: Camille Claudel (1988) en Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)
Visits and walks
Nogent sur Seine, Camille Claudel museum
Delacroix museum, Paris
Bourdelle museum, Paris
Rodin museum, Paris
Salpétrière hospital
Lübeck
4 Days
Price for 10 participants (price partly depends on the number of participants: more participants lowers the price)
750 Euro (+ 100 euro for 1 person per room)
Novel discussed
Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks
Visits & walks
Thomas Mann House
Buddenbrooks walk through Lübeck
Visit to Travemünde
Zürich and Davos
4 Days
Price for 10 participants (price partly depends on the number of participants: more participants lowers the price)
1400 euro (+ 400 euro for 1 person per room)
Novel discussed
Thomas Mann: The magic Mountain
Visits and walks
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
4 Days
Price for 10 participants (price partly depends on the number of participants: more participants lowers the price)
900 euro (+ 100 euro for 1 person per room)
Novel discussed
Thomas Mann: Dr. Faustus
Visits and walks
Bicycle tour through Munich: the houses of Thomas Mann
Dr. Faustus walk in Polling
Lisbon
6 Days
Price for 10 participants (price partly depends on the number of participants: more participants lowers the price)
1100 euro (+120 euro for 1 person per 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
Visits & Walks
Two literary walks through Lisbon
Saramago museum
Prazeres graveyard
Tram tour through Lisbon
Trieste
6 Days
Price for 10 participants (price partly depends on the number of participants: more participants lowers the price)
1150 euro (+ 240 euro for one person per 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
Visits and walks
Literary walk through Trieste
Svevo/Joyce museum
Risiera di San Sabba
Duino
Miramare
Rouen
6 Days
Price for 10 participants (price partly depends on the number of participants: more participants lowers the price)
1300 euro (+ 200 euro for 1 person per room)
Novels discussed:
Julian Barnes: Flauberts parrot
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert: Bouvard and Pécuchet
Guy de Maupassant: several stories
Visits and walks
Monet and Giverny
Flaubert walk in Rouen
Flaubert museum
Flaubert pavilion
Musée des beaux arts, Rouen
Expected in 2025: London
General information: Minimal of 6 and maximum of 15 participants. Special adjustments possible for medical doctors. Mostly two teachers. Hotel and breakfast included, first day and last day diners included. Classroom in the hotel. Walks with audio guide. Traveling to and from the city not included. Dates can be discussed.
Please contact us for more information at website@litmed.nl!
Update 03 07 2024