![James Joyce at his favorite place in Zurich, the confluence of the Sihl and Limmat rivers, 1937.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titelbild-joyce-300x225.jpg)
Finding James Joyce in Zurich
James Joyce’s impact upon world literature is profound and he wrote a sizable portion of Ulysses in Zürich – a city that he enjoyed immensely and called home several times during his tumultuous life.
James Joyce’s Early Years
![Photography of James Joyce with his wife Nora, son Giorgio and daughter Lucia, Paris, 1924.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/1-the-joyces-1924-220x300.jpg)
![Fragment from the manuscript draft for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ca. 1912-1921.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ausschnitt-aus-manuskript-223x300.jpg)
…if you spilled minestra on the Bahnhofstrasse you could eat it right up without a spoon…
Zürich & Literary Success
![Postcard with Café Odeon, date unknown.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/cafe-odeon-1-300x209.jpg)
![Restaurant Weisses Kreuz on Seefeldstrasse, photography by Friedrich Ruef-Hirt, 1905-1910.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/weisses-kreuz-300x192.jpg)
![Artwork by Hannes + Petruschka Vogel, Ljmmat Sjhl: Hommage à James Joyce, 2004, Zurich. Foto: Pietro Mattioli.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ljmmat-300x168.jpg)
![Joyce lived on the second floor of Universitätstrasse 38 (now Haldenbachstrasse 12) in 1918 and wrote five chapters of Ulysses.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/universitatstrasse-201x300.jpg)
![James Joyce on a trip to Lucerne, together with his wife Nora, Hans Curjel and Carola Giedion-Welcker (from left to right) in 1935.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/joyce-in-luzern-keystone-300x300.jpg)
Ulysses and Frequent Return Visits to Zürich
![First edition of Ulysses published by Sylvia Beach, owner of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, 1922.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ulysses-by-james-joyce-233x300.jpg)
![Tomb of James Joyce at Fluntern Cemetery, 1972.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/grabmal-fluntern-217x300.jpg)