James Joyce

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Full name: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce

Born: Dublin, Ireland, 2 February 1888

Died: Zurich, Switzerland, 13 January 1941

Ground-breaking modernist author, e.g. of Dubliners (1914), Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939). Lived in Zurich 1915 to 1919 and 1940 until his death in 1941.

Zurich Sights

Zurich James Joyce Foundation

Platzspitz: site of 1938 photographs

Joyce's grave in Fluntern Cemetery

Zurich Texts

Poetry

Raymond Carver, "In Switzerland"
Harry Clifton, "A Spider Dance on the Bahnhofstrasse"
Elliott Coleman, "Joyce's Grave: Friedhof Fluntern, Zurich"
Clifford Dyment, "Joyce in Zürich"
Susan Firer, "Under the Blue Angel in the Zurich Train Station"
Stuart Friebert, "The Lion's Picture"
Samuel John Hazo, "Dublin Twilight"
Samuel John Hazo, "Yes"
Louis Johnson, "Homage to Dada: Zurich 1916: Café Voltaire"
Allan Johnston, "Pound to Joyce"
James Joyce, "Bahnhofstrasse"
Philip McDonagh, "In Fluntern Cemetery"
David Norris, "Joyce in Zurich '78" (a.k.a. "Joycean Zürich '78")
John Peck, "A Gross of Poems Linked in the Mixed Manner"
R. T. Smith, "Lucia"
William Irvin Thompson, "At the Grave of James Joyce in Zürich"
William Thompson Irvin, "Paradeplatz Passacaglias"
Derek Walcott's "Volcano"

Plays

Seamus Finnegan, James Joyce and the Israelites
Tom Stoppard, Travesties

Short Story

Jane Mullen, "The One with the Heart"

Novella

Will Self, "Leberknödel"

Novels

Richard Beard, Dry Bones
Frank McGuinness, The Woodcutter and His Family
Nuala O'Connor, Nora

Other

Mairead Byrne, Joyce: A Clew

Further Information

Weiterführende Informationen

Martin Mühlheim

UZH English Department, Plattenstrasse 47, CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland

Email

English Department Zurich in Anglophone Literatures

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