European Writers in Exile

Robert C. Hauhart is professor in the Department of Society and Social Justice at Saint Martin's University, Lacey.Jeff Birkenstein is professor of English at Saint Martin's University, Lacey.

• Preface: On the Experience of ExileRobert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein1. Social Exile in Nineteenth Century EnglandCharlotte Fiehn2. Zola’s English Exile: the Private Pages of a Public AuthorKatherine Ashley 3. "All Europe contributed": Joseph Conrad's Experience and Representation of ExileKelly C. MacPhail4. Thomas Mann – An American? From Fascination to Disillusionment – The Black Swan as a Literary Account of Mann’s Exile ExperiencesKatarzyna Balzewska5. James Joyce, Dubliners, and ExileJeff Birkenstein6. Franz Kafka’s Exile of the MindRobert C. Hauhart 7. Professor Pnin in Exile: Nabokov and the Liminal Experience of the Post-War Émigré AcademicRowena Clarke 8. Specks in the City: Shklovsky and Nabokov in BerlinRossitsa Terzieva-Artemis9. Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: The Tradition of Political Thought and the Modern AgeShmuel Lederman10. Arthur Koestler’s Fictional Self-Reflections of ExileAndrea Gay Tyndall11. In Search of the Doppelganger: Homecoming from Exile Irina Golovacheva 12. Milan Kundera, the Novel, and the Problem of HistoryLiani Lochner13.Norman Manea’s Exile between Predicament and RedemptionBrîndusa Nicolaescu14. Lessons from Exile—Eva Hoffman as Theoretician and Practitioner of OthernessJohannes Evelein15. “Receive me kindly, stranger that I am”: W.G. Sebald’s Existential Exile Marion Rohrleitner16. Transnational Modes of Exile in Caryl Phillips’s Narratives: Or, What it Feels Like to be Both Of and Not OfSvetlana Stefanova

After a plethora of books on narrowly focused groups of literary exiles, literary exile destinations, or the conditions from which political, literary and other exiles have escaped, this volume does something very new and valuable. It examines the experience of exile, across time and geography, to provide readers with new ideas and angles to understand the phenomenon itself. Birkenstein and Hauhart have done a great service for all readers interested in exiled artists, and given us much to think about as we consider further research.