Exile, for all of its pain and suffering, has offered European writers a way to step out of their national linguistic and cultural environment. Did exiled writers make use of this opportunity, and start writing a ? By no means all did; many of them sealed themselves off in order to maintain the purity of their mother tongue, while others and adjusted to the culture of their host country, often even by adopting its language for their writing. Considering these questions, Pascale Casanova publique mondiale des lettres1 is of great help, although her models are Joyce, Beckett, and other writers, who were not exiles in a literal sense. Many exiles retained the national mentality of their youth.
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Volume (Year): 17 (2009) Issue (Month): 01 (February) Pages: 133-148 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
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