"Much of the exile's life is taken up with compensating
for disorienting loss by creating a new world to rule. It is not surprising
that so many exiles semm to be novelists, chess players, political activists,
and intellectuals. Each of these occupations requires a minimal investment in
objects and places a great premium on mobility and skill. The exile's new
world, logically enough, is unnatural and its unreality resembles fiction.
Georg Lukács, in Theory of the Novel, argued with compelling force that the
novel, a literary form created out of the unreality of ambition and fantasy, is
the form of 'transcendental homelessness'."
(Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays, de Edward Said)
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