The exile and return of writers from East-Central Europe : a compendium / edited by John Neubauer and Borbala Zsuzsanna Torok.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neubauer, John, 1933-

Török, Borbála Zsuzsanna, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exiles' writings, East European--History and criticism.

Exiles' writings, East European.

Exiles' writings, Central European--History and criticism.

Exiles' writings, Central European.

Authors, Exiled.

Exiles--Intellectual life--20th century.

Exiles.

Exiles in literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Return migration in literature.

Homecoming in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (640 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, Miloš 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter I

Introduction

Exile: Home of the Twentieth Century

Chapter II: Exile Cultures Abroad: Publishing Ventures, Exiles Associations, and Audiences

In the Vacuum of Exile: The Hungarian Activists in Vienna 1919-1926

Cosmopolitans without a Polis: Towards a Hermeneutics of the East-East Exilic Experience (1929-1945)

Kultura (1946-2000)

Polish World War II Veteran Émigré Writers in the US: Danuta Mostwin and Others

Irodalmi Újság in Exile: 1957-1989

The Hungarian Mikes Kör and Magyar Mühely: Personal Recollections

"We did not want an émigré journal": Pavel Tigrid and Svědectví

Monica Lovinescu at Radio Free Europe

Chapter III: Individual Trajectories

Miloš Crnjanski in Exile

Gombrowicz, the Émigré

Paul Goma: the Permanence of Dissidence and Exile

Writing and Internal Exile in Eastern Europe: The Example of Imre Kertész

Kundera's Paradise Lost: Paradigm of the Circle

Chapter IV: Autobiographical Exile Writing

Life in Translation: Exile in the Autobiographical Works of Kazimierz Brandys and Andrzej Bobkowski

From Diary to Novel: Sándor Márai's San Gennaro vére and Ítélet Canudosban

Exile Diaries: Sándor Márai, Gustaw Herling-Grudzin´ ski, and Others

"Is There a Place Like Home?" Jewish Narratives of Exile and Homecoming in Late Twentieth-Century East-Central Europe

Chapter V: The 1990's: Homecoming, (Re)Canonization, New Exiles

Herta Müller: Between Myths of Belonging

Post-Yugoslav Theater Exile: Transitory, Partial and Digital

Losing Touch, Keeping in Touch, Out of Touch: The Reintegration of Hungarian Literary Exile after 1989

Albert Wass: Rebirth and Apotheosis of a Transylvanian-Hungarian Writer

Chapter VI

Instead of Conclusion: East Central Literary Exile and its Representation

A Timeline of Exile Movements, 1919-2000

List of Contributors

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612716768

9781282716766

128271676X

9783110217742

3110217740

OCLC:

506174515