EAN: 9783110217735

THE EXILE AND RETURN OF WRITERS FROM EAST-CENTR...

This is the first comparative study of literature written by writers who fled from East-Central
Europe during the twentieth century. It includes not only interpretations of individual lives
and literary works  but also studies of the most important literary journals  publishers  radio
programs  and other aspects of exile literary cultures. The theoretical part of introduction
distinguishes between exiles  émigrés  and expatriates  while the historical part surveys the
pre-twentieth-century exile traditions and provides an overview of the exilic events between
1919 and 1995  one section is devoted to exile cultures in Paris  London  and New York  as well
as in Moscow  Madrid  Toronto  Buenos Aires and other cities. The studies focus on the
factional divisions within each national exile culture and on the relationship between the
various exiled national cultures among each other. They also investigate the relation of each
exile national culture to the culture of its host country. Individual essays are devoted to
Witold Gombrowicz  Paul Goma  Milan Kundera  Monica Lovincescu  Milos Crnjanski  Herta Müller 
and to the internal exile of Imre Kertész. Special attention is devoted to the new forms of
exile that emerged during the ex-Yugoslav wars  and to the problems of homecoming of exiled
texts and writers.

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