Exile and Creativity
Subtitle: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances
Contributors: Susan Rubin Suleiman (Editor); Susan Rubin Suleiman (Editor)
Edition: Journal into Book edition
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9780822321873
Subjects: Cultural studies; Nationalism; Theory of art; Sociology - Social Theory; Exiles in literature; Special Subjects In Literature; Sociology; French; Literary Criticism; Literature, Modern; General; Creative Ability; Emigration & Immigration; Biography/Memoirs/Letters; Literary Studies/American Lite; Creativity in literature; Creation (Literary, artistic,; Exile (Punishment) in literatu; Exile (Punishment) in literature
First sentence: Of course, it's one hell of a way to get from Petersburg to Stockholm; but then for a man of my occupation the notion of a straight line being the shortest distance between two points has lost its attraction a long time ago.