Rathgar ,  Dublin ,  Ireland Died 13 January   1941  (aged 58) Zürich ,  Switzerland Occupation Novelist  and  Poet Literary movement Modernism , and  imagism Influences Homer ,  Aristotle ,  Dante , Aquinas ,  Shakespeare , Dujardin ,  Ibsen ,  Bruno ,  Vico , Chekhov Influenced Beckett ,  Borges ,  O'Brien ,