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James Joyce in Zurich

A Guide

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Provides in depth information on people, places, institutions and events relevant to Joyce during his time in Zurich

  • Discusses the traces Zurich has left in Joyce’s works (three of the poems in Pomes Penyeach, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake)

  • Includes a map of Joyce’s Zurich and a comprehensive bibliography of his work and its relation to Zurich

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Table of contents (66 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. 1.01 Introduction and Acknowledgements

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 3-7
    3. 1.02 Joyce in Zurich

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 9-32
    4. 1.03 Zurich in Joyce

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 33-56
    5. 1.04 Zurich after Joyce

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 57-62
  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
    2. 2.01 Walter Ackermann

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 65-66
    3. 2.02 Bahnhofstrasse

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 67-68
    4. 2.03 Bellevue

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 69-70
    5. 2.04 Felix Beran

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 71-73
    6. 2.05 Karl Bleibtreu

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 75-77
    7. 2.06 Georges Borach

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 79-81
    8. 2.07 Edmund Brauchbar

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 83-84
    9. 2.08 Frank Budgen

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 85-89
    10. 2.09 Carlton Elite (Hotel)

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 91-93
    11. 2.10 Henry Carr

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 95-98
    12. 2.11 Dada

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 99-102
    13. 2.12 Death Mask

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 103-106
    14. 2.13 English Players

      • Andreas Fischer
      Pages 107-111

About this book

This book offers a comprehensive account of James Joyce and Zurich, one of the four cities (including Dublin, Trieste and Paris) in which he spent significant parts of his life. As a refugee during World War I, Joyce wrote a substantial part of Ulysses in Zurich and subsequently visited the city regularly during the 1930s. Finally, a refugee for the second time, he died there on 13 January 1941 and is buried in Fluntern Cemetery. This guide is conceived both as a book that may be read in its entirety or consulted selectively for specific information. An introduction and three chapters, Joyce in Zurich, Zurich in Joyce and Zurich after Joyce, are followed by sixty alphabetically ordered articles on people, places, institutions and events relevant to Joyce during his time in Zurich. Linked by cross-references and an index, they provide a rich, kaleidoscopic view of Joyce’s Zurich.

Reviews

“James Joyce in Zurich: A Guide represents an important step forward in addressing this gap in the biographical coverage. Fischer has combed through the existing biographies and several decades’ worth of scholarship and supplements his synthesis work with considerable original research in Zurich institutions to provide a timely and useful handbook to the Swiss Joyce … . The Guide will serve as an invaluable vade mecum for readers of the published volumes of Joyce’s correspondence … .” (Ronan Crowley, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Vol. 260 (1), 2023)

“Being a lover of books as physical artifacts, I will say this: the guide is physically pleasing to hold and behold. It is the height of a normal octavo … like a miniature coffee table book. Its smooth cover, which cradles nicely in the palm, displays Giedion-Welcker’s iconic picture of Platzspitz, with Joyce leaning against the railings as Zurich’s two rivers, the Limmat and Sihl, meet in the background. It is a book that belongs in your hands.” (Amanda Sigler, James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 59 (3), 2022)

Authors and Affiliations

  • English Department, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Andreas Fischer

About the author

Andreas Fischer is Emeritus Professor of English Philology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has published on dialects of English, on the history of the English vocabulary, on stylistic aspects of literary texts and on James Joyce. He is one of the trustees of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation.


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Buying options

eBook USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 69.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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