SDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1958 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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SPIRITUAL, PHYSICAL EXPATRIATES:
Levin Lectures on 'Literature and Exile'
By FAITH WEINSTEIN
his own country as a refugee, thus
There are many significant giving up his hope of ever reach-
problems facing the writer who, 'ing his audience. His other alter-
like Pasternak or Nabakov, finds native is to translate himself and
himself in spiritual or physical his work into the new language of
exile, Prof. Harry Levin of Har- his adopted country.
vard said in his lecture "Literature Cas Nabakov Typical
and Exile," yesterday.ClN,,i
The theme of Pasternak's book INabakov, author of "Lolita," is
"Doctor Zhivago" is that of the typical of the miodern "artist as
"struggle of the individual against a displaced person," said Prof.
ture, enveloped in a new language,
often finds the language and
scenes of his native country re-
turning to him. Heine, the Ger-
man in Paris, Lorca, the Spaniard
in New York, Dante, the exile from
his native Florence, all wrote of
this feeling of words returning
from the past.
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crushing odds," he commented. Levin. "He remains for our sur- spread of literacy throughout the
This idea of individuality is con- prise and delight, a continental world, the exiles were banished
trary to the theories of the Rus- dandy," despite his reference to because of their actions, not be-
sian authorities. The book has "Lolita" as the story of his love cause of their words. "Ovid was
been banned in Russia. The physi- affair with the English language, banished for a poem and a mis-
cal exile is "Doctor Zhivago", the Prof. Levin discussed briefly the take," said Prof. Levin. Since the
spiritual, Pasternak, Prof. Levin emigre Polish writer Vitlin, auth- spread of literacy, however, men
said. or of the paper "Sorrow and have been banished more and
Pasternak Wrote Plea Grandeur in Exile." more for their workshe con-
Pasternak has written a moving "He recognizes," said Prof. tinued.
plea to the Russian authorities, Levin, "the sentimentality which Romantic Exiles Began
begging them to allow him to fin- is likely to haze his retrospective After the French revolution the
ish his life in his homeland, Prof. glance," but feels that the gran- era of the romantic exiles began,
Levin continued, which is very deur of the exiles' view over- 'Prof. Levin said. Such men as
similar to the pleas Ovid wrote whelms the sentimentality. Shelley, Byron and Browning be-
from exile, begging to be allowed Linguistic Form of Problem came expatriates in body, but
to return to Rome. Very often the cultural problem their style and spirit remained in
Prof. Levin pointed out that the of exile takes a linguistic form, their native country.t
artist in exile has two alternatives. Prof. Levin continued. The artist Along with the physical exilese
First, he can choose to write for f in exile, surrounded by a new cul- came the spiritual exiles, the men
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Prof. Levin, formerly professor
of comparative literature at Har-
vard, is presently the head of the
Department of Romance Lan-
guages for the college. He is the
author of many books, including a
work on James Joyce, and a series
of studies of the French realists,
"The Gates of Horn," which is
about to be published.
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By THOMAS HAYDEN
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The speaker lectured on "Mass
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