Corresponds with American poet Ezra Pound, who begins serialization of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in his magazine the Egoist . Joyce's annus mirablis. Publication of Dubliners . Begins writing Ulysses . Completes Exiles , a play.
Family moves to neutral Switzerland during first world war.
Zurich important centre for arts, theatre, and political exiles. American and English editions of Portrait well received. Further eye operations. Serialization of Ulysses begins in the American magazine Little Review . James Joyce - a guide to his greatest works 1920.