Then he returned, to his own surprise, for two more winters. ... He wrote something else, too, an essay called "Stranger in the Village"; it was this essay, even more than the novel, that brought me to Leukerbad. "Stranger in the Village" first appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1953, and then in the essay collection "Notes of a Native Son," in 1955. ... The part of the essay that focuses on the Swiss village is both bemused and sorrowful. ... I ran a hot bath and lay neck-deep in the water with my old paperback copy of "Notes of a Native Son....

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