The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe : A Compendium.

By: Neubauer, JohnContributor(s): Török, Borbála Zsuzsanna | Török, Borbála ZsuzsannaMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (626 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110217742Subject(s): Authors, Exiled | Emigration and immigration in literature | Exiles -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | Exiles in literature | Exiles' writings, Central European -- History and criticism | Exiles' writings, East European -- History and criticism | Return migration in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe : A CompendiumDDC classification: 809/.8943 LOC classification: PN849.E9E95 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Exile: Home of the Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- 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 Svĕdectví -- Monica Lovinescu at Radio Free Europe -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 śki, and Others -- "Is There a Place Like Home?" Jewish Narratives of Exile and Homecoming in Late Twentieth-Century East-Central Europe -- Introduction -- 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 -- Instead of Conclusion: East Central Literary Exile and its Representation -- A Timeline of Exile Movements, 1919-2000 -- List of Contributors -- Backmatter.
Summary: This first comparative study of writers who fled from both the Nazi and Communist dictatorships in East-Central Europe includes interpretations of individual trajectories, literary works, and exile literary cultures. A historical and theoretical introduction provides an overview of the events and studies exile cultures from Paris, London, and New York to Moscow, Toronto, and Buenos Aires. Interpretations of select writers are complemented by studies of the main exile journals, publishers, and associations. Special attention is devoted to the problems of "homecoming.".
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Exile: Home of the Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- 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 Svĕdectví -- Monica Lovinescu at Radio Free Europe -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 śki, and Others -- "Is There a Place Like Home?" Jewish Narratives of Exile and Homecoming in Late Twentieth-Century East-Central Europe -- Introduction -- 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 -- Instead of Conclusion: East Central Literary Exile and its Representation -- A Timeline of Exile Movements, 1919-2000 -- List of Contributors -- Backmatter.

This first comparative study of writers who fled from both the Nazi and Communist dictatorships in East-Central Europe includes interpretations of individual trajectories, literary works, and exile literary cultures. A historical and theoretical introduction provides an overview of the events and studies exile cultures from Paris, London, and New York to Moscow, Toronto, and Buenos Aires. Interpretations of select writers are complemented by studies of the main exile journals, publishers, and associations. Special attention is devoted to the problems of "homecoming.".

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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