1. Exile as Expulsion and Wandering: Joseph Roth, Sholem Aleichem, Stefan Zweig

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction: A General History of Concepts of Exile 11
5. 1. Exile as Expulsion and Wandering: Joseph Roth, Sholem Aleichem, Stefan Zweig 20
6. 2. Exile as Aesthetic Revolt and an Inward Turn: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch 27
7. 3. Exile as Social Renewal: Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau 31
8. 4. Exile as Resistance and a Moral Stance: Karl Kraus, Arthur Schnitzler 35
9. 5. Exile as Gender Marginalization and the Independence of the Femme Fatale: Alma Mahler 40
10. 6. Exile as an Escape from Patriarchal Oppression: Franz Werfel 44
11. 7. Exile as Anxiety and Involuntary Memory: Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Bruno Schulz 47
12. 8. Exile as Doom and Revenge: Hermann Ungar 52
13. 9. Exile as a Loss of Identity: Saul Friedländer 55
14. 10. Exile as Abandonment: Peter Weiss 60
15. 11. Exile as Bearing Witness: Elie Wiesel 67
16. 12. Exile as Dehumanization: Primo Levi 74
17. 13. Exile as an Awakening of Consciousness: Jiří Weil, Ladislav Fuks, Arnošt Lustig 80
18. 14. Exile as a Feeling of Meaninglessness: Egon Hostovský 87
19. 15. Exile as Transformation and a Will to Meaning: Viktor Frankl, Simon Wiesenthal 90
20. Conclusion 101
21. Bibliography 104
22. Index 114