short story "Honolulu", collected in The Trembling of a Leaf (1921) by W. Somerset Maugham: "The wise traveller travels only in imagination. An old Frenchman (he was really a Savoyard) once wrote a book called Voyage autour de ma Chambre." "Voyage Autour de ma Chambre" is mentioned in British author Alain de Botton's book The Art of Travel (2002, ). "Voyage Autour de ma Chambre" is mentioned in Danish author Torben Brostrøm's book Litterære bekendelser (2016, ). "Voyage Autour de ma Chambre" is mentioned in British author Lucy Huskinson's book Architecture and the Mimetic Self (2018, ) The poem "Hai luli" from Les Prisonniers du Caucase was set to music by French composer Pauline Viardot. Alphonse de Lamartine writes the poem Le Retour when De Maistre returns to Paris. Voyage Autour de ma Chambre inspired Portuguese writer Almeida Garrett to write Viagens na Minha Terra (Travels in my Homeland). Xavier de Maistre and his Voyage Autour de ma Chambre are said by the character Brás Cubas to be one of his influences in writing his memoirs, in the novel Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas by Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. Voyage Autour de ma Chambre is mentioned in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers: "...She wanted to learn, thinking that if she could read, as Paul said he could read, 'Colomba', or the 'Voyage autour de ma Chambre', the world would have a different face for her and a deepened respect." (Part 2, Chapter 7) The short story by Wilkie Collins, "A Terribly Strange Bed," which was first published in Household Words by Charles Dickens in 1852, contains a reference to "Voyage Autour de ma Chambre." During a bout of insomnia, the narrator says that he will inspect the strange room that he is spending the night in. The title is echoed in John Mortimer's 1963 autobiographical play A Voyage Round My Father. Heavily inspired Gustaw Herling-Grudziński's work "Wieża" or "Tower". Theatre The novel "Voyage Around My Room" was first performed in Zürich in 2013. References External links 1763 births 1852 deaths Writers from Chambéry 18th-century French novelists 19th-century French novelists 18th-century people from Savoy Savoyard counter-revolutionaries Burials at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery French male novelists 19th-century French male writers 18th-century French male writers