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The Odeon, which opened in 1911, was a lavishly decorated grand café in the Viennese tradition which became a meeting place for locals and in particular the many émigrés that passed through or lived in Zurich during World War I. It was at the Odeon that Joyce met Stefan Zweig in October 1918.
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For details of the Odeon throughout its history see Riess and Scheidegger’s—highly anecdotal—Café Odeon; for the period 1914 to 1919 see Huonker, Literaturszene Zürich, 27–32.
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Zweig, World of Yesterday, 209.
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These and many other names are mentioned in Riess and Scheidegger, Café Odeon, 49–146. See also Huonker, Literaturszene Zürich, 27–32 and—on Joyce—33–36.
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Joyce’s biographers state that he went there “often” (Gorman, Definitive Biography, 238) or “frequently” (Ellmann, Joyce, 409). This cannot be verified, since according to Dr Alfred Dutli “no records of guests are kept” at the Odeon (letter to Ellmann dated 20 July 1955, Dutli papers in the Zurich James Joyce Foundation).
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Zweig, World of Yesterday, 210. The two men first met at the Odeon on 10 October 1918 after Joyce had contacted Zweig about Exiles .
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Fischer, A. (2020). 2.35 Odeon (Café). In: James Joyce in Zurich. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51283-5_39
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