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Forthcoming: Anthony Burgess, A Shorter Ulysses
Edited by Andrew Biswell from the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and published by Galileo Publishers, Anthony Burgess’s A Shorter Ulysses will be available from late November, 2025. As stated on the publisher’s website: “This radical reduction of the novel, containing the key episodes which stand at the heart of the novel, includes an introduction and…
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New Joyce Signpost on Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse
Have you ever had trouble finding the Zurich James Joyce Foundation? If so, you’ll be pleased to learn that there’s a new signpost in town! Just walk down Bahnhofrstrasse from Zurich Main Station and keep a lookout on your left. You’ll find the new signpost on your left, at the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Augustinergasse.…
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Zurich James Joyce Foundation’s Annual Report 2024 Online
The Zurich James Joyce Foundation’s annual report for the calendar year 2024 is now available online (in German, PDF). We would like to thank the members of the Board as well as the Friends for their contributions to this look back at a rather special year. Just contact us at info@joycefoundation.ch or via the Contact…
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SRF Online News Story: “Mistakes from Goethe to Joyce”
The website of Switzerland’s Germand-speaking broadcaster SRF features a report on why it’s okay for literary texts to contain ‘typos.’ You can find the report here.
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Reading groups times from January 2025
Please find attached our reading groups times from January. READING GROUPS: OVERVIEW Note: No prior knowledge or registration required (except, of course, for the Zoom group).You can join at any point, i.e. even if you can’t make it to the first session. Ulysses Finnegans Wake Find more information here!
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19.11.2025: Ein Gespräch in literarischen Miniaturen
Von 1901 und 1904 hielt der irische Modernist James Joyce besondere Momente des Alltags fragmentarisch fest: die sogenannten Epiphanies, teils lyrisch, teils dialogisch. Die Form der literarischen Miniatur nutzten der afghanische Schriftsteller Azizullah Ima und der Aargauer Autor Andreas Neeser nun ihrerseits für einen Dialog über Themen, die bewegen: zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen, politische und philosophische Grenzziehungen,…
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05.11.2025: Frau Minne und James Joyce
Ein Brückenschlag zwischen jüdischem Mittelalter und literarischer Moderne Schauplatz Brunngasse: Eine wohlhabende jüdische Familie gibt im 14. Jahrhundert prächtige Wandmalereien in Auftrag. Doch am 23. Februar 1349 kommt es in Zürich zu einem Pogrom, bei dem die Männer der jüdischen Gemeinde umgebracht, die Frauen und Kinder vertrieben werden. Leopold Bloom: Die Hauptfigur des 1922 veröffentlichten…
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25.10.2025: James Joyces Dublinerinnen
“The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.” (Dubliners) Dreamy teenager, ambitious mother, emotionally unfulfilled wives: Joyce shows us female characters constricted by society, yearning for something different and struggling for personal freedom – including some who achieve it. Readings in German and English (incl. translation).…