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The Oxford Book of Exile (Hardcover, New)
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The Oxford Book of Exile (Hardcover, New)
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From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has
been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which
individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland
are as various as they are numerous, and how people react to exile
also varies widely. Think of the wit of Alexander Herzen, or the
quiet despair of Oscar Wilde, sitting outside the Cafe' de Flore in
the Boulevard St. Germain in the hope that someone will pay for his
coffee, or the comfortable life of Sir Richard and Lady Burton in
their garconnerie in Trieste, or the angst of Albert Camus, or the
wanderings of Jack Kerouac. Now, in The Oxford Book of Exile, John
Simpson has brought together examples of exile from all over the
world, and from all periods of history.
Here is an intense record of the experience of exile, with writers
from Ovid to Solzhenitsyn describing their emotions, their
struggle, and their despair. For those who have chosen a life in
exile, Simpson shows how the response is more mixed: ambivalence
about the country they have left and the country they have chosen
suffuses the writing of these intellectuals. We read of literary
expatriates, such as Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway,
Henry Miller, and James Joyce. There is also the happy life of
exiles in utterly foreign places, such as Robert Louis Stevenson in
Samoa or Paul Gauguin in Tahiti. And those persecuted for their
faith--such as the Pilgrims at Plymouth or the Ayatollah Khomeini
in France--rub shoulders with those fleeing from war, or from debt,
or even from the weather.
Castaways and spies, premiers and princes describe their
departure, their reception, and sometimes their return, in an
anthology that is by turns inspiring, moving, and deeply
thought-provoking. With sources ranging from police records,
newspaper articles, interviews, letters, and memoirs, as well as
verse and fiction, and settings as remote as Iran and Russia, China
and Palestine, The Oxford Book of Exile provides fascinating
insight into an experience that touches so many, and captures the
imagination of us all.
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