By emphasizing their years in exile and how those years affected
their writings, Literary Exile in the Twentieth Century provides a
unique and fascinating perspective on expatriate writers that
cannot be gleaned from any other biographical dictionary. This
excellent compilation is recommended for academic libraries, and it
could also be useful in large public libraries.
"Reference Books Bulletin"
This encyclopedia provides an analytical survey of writers in
exile who left their homelands for various reasons such as
banishment, deportation, voluntary exile, anticipation of
imprisonment, harassment, torture, or religious persecution. The
various writers of the modern age represented in more than 500
entries have been chosen for having received wide acceptance and
high critical evaluation. The length of the entries varies because
of the need to reflect a balance of exilic forms and types. Most of
the entries written by esteemed critics in specialized fields deal
with prominent writers and provide in-depth treatment of the
writers' milieu, biography, and works. Titles by each author are
listed at the end of the entry and are followed by a list of
critical source material on the writer. Group entries such as
Holocaust writers, Iranian writers in exile, and expatriates
discuss exile as a phenomenon beyond the realm of individual
behavior. The editor also includes several representative
non-exiled authors whose literary work reflects a profound state of
psychic exile.
Czeslaw Milosz, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Henry James, Thomas
Mann, Elie Wiesel, Joseph Conrad, and Hannah Arendt are among those
considered in this exploration of the varieties of exilic
experience. Tucker's thoughtful introduction examines literary
exile from a myriad of viewpoints, arriving at a formulation of
universal features of exilic writing characteristic of the
twentieth century. This distinguished resource should find a place
in college and university libraries as well as in the reference
collections of larger public libraries.
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