The Virtues Of Exile

The Virtues Of Exile

Ewa M. Thompson, in Slavic and East European Journal (Winter 1989), Dept. of Russian and East Eurooean Studies. Univ. of Minn.. Minneano- lis, Minn. 55455.

Who Speaks for Whom?
Do exiled Eastern European writers truly speak for (or to) their countrymen? In an interview with Philip Roth in the New York Review of Books (April 12, 1990), Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klima suggests that one of the most prominent exiles, Milan Kundera, may not.
The reproach that he is writing for foreigners rat...

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