Issue 8.3

Overview

Special Issue: The Literature of Exile

Published: April 1975


See the issue summary and contents below.

 16 essays, totalling 258 pages

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Issue Summary

Beginning with a series of illustrations of Russian prison camps by Polish artist Adam Kossowski, this issue of Mosaic goes on to investigate themes of exile across a span of national literatures and literary genres. Included are essays on Cain and Beowulf, Dante, George Darien, Zinaida Hippius, Max Aub, Brazilian literature, and the Spanish picaresque.

Contents

Illustrations: Russian Prison Camps 1940-42

Adam Kossowski

The Exile as Uncreator

David Williams

Exile and Writer

Andrei Siniavsky ("Abram Tertz")

Onlyman

Ulrich Wicks

Exiles at Home in American Literature

Daniel Marder

Hemingway: Ultimate Exile

J. V. Hagopian

Time's Exile: Dick Diver and the Heroic Idea

Richard Foster

The Development of the Classical Tradition of Exile to Seneca

A. L. Motto and J. R. Clark

Exile Among Exiles: Dante's Party of One

Anne Paolucci

As I Was Sometime Milan: Prospects for a Search for Giordano Bruno through Prospero, Coleridge, and the Figure of Exile

Elizabeth Sewell

An Incident of Russian Emigré Life in Paris: Zinaida Hippius' Diary of January-May, 1933

Temira Pachmuss

Exile and Exaggeration: George Darien's Biribi

Walter Redfern

The Creative Alienation of the Writer: Sartre, Camus and Simone de Beauvoir

Erica Harth

Return of the Artist: The Quest for Authenticity in Brazilian Literature

Erdmute W. White

Les Ecrvains de L'exode: Une lecture d'Andre Schwarz-Bart

L. van Delft

Time, the "Fourth Dimension", in Max Aub's Theatre of Exile

A. A. Borrás