Word: fluntern
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...have a lot of perdition swimming about in his head, much of which he poured into his great wild tome on Leopold Bloom's odyssey through Dublin on the day and night of June 16, 1904. James and his mind were laid to rest in Zurich's Fluntern Cemetery in 1941, the grave distinguished only by a small headstone. For years Manhattan Art Dealer Lee Nordness had thought that the grand man deserved a better monument, so at last he arranged for Sculptor Milton Hebald to do the job. Last week on "Bloomsday," they unveiled a bronze statue...
James Joyce's grave was marked by a black stone in the snowy Fluntern Cemetery above Zurich. Nobody seemed to know what has become of his last unpublished writings. His secretary, Paul Leon, returning to Paris for them in 1940, had been caught by the Nazis and never heard from again. It is possible that Mme. Leon, thought to be in the south of France, has some of the notebooks from which students of Joyce might learn more of his plans for the work which death interrupted. By one account it was to be an epic...
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