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Literary Exiles from Nazi Germany - Exemplarity and the Search for Meaning (Hardcover)
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Literary Exiles from Nazi Germany - Exemplarity and the Search for Meaning (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Captures the learning process of Nazi-era literary exiles following
in the footsteps of legendary literary exemplars of exile. Exile is
as old as humanity itself but a radically new fate for the "novice"
exile, who falls into a world about which personal experience can
tell him nothing. He does, however, know a great number of stories
-- myths, legends, allegories, biblical or historical accounts --
about exile. The novice's search for a foothold initiates a
learning process in which the exilic tradition assumes a major
role. The present book captures this learning process:it is a
cultural history of exile as it was experienced by thousands of
German and Austrian writers and intellectuals who opposed National
Socialism: among them Brecht, Canetti, Seghers, Remarque, the
Manns, and Ludwig Marcuse. It shows how, slowly, exile becomes a
reality through the growing awareness of -- and reference to -- the
exemplary figures of a shared fate. Scores of fellow travelers,
from the mythic figures Odysseus and Ahasverus ("The EternalJew")
to writers such as Heinrich Heine and Victor Hugo, frame the
experience of exile, imbuing it with meaning, giving it depth, and
even elevating it to a "High Moral Office." They frequently make
appearances in the narratives of the Nazi-era exiles. The
Russian-American exile poet Joseph Brodsky called writers in exile
"retrospective and retroactive beings." What their retrospective
gazes yield as they search for meaning in banishment is at the
heart ofthis book.. Johannes F. Evelein is Professor of Language
and Culture Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
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