SDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1958 THE MICHIGAN DAILY « _ 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. Before the advent of the print- incr nrnee nd th e tihnniiP-n S? < I . :< I !, '' JB. I """e«" " l~arxaaw u u..gw11 pr11ess anl Me suosequenl 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 Harshbarger Discusses TV Potentialities For her-for him- for them - for yourselfes -we hve the gifts you like JOHN LEIDY Phone NO 8-6779 0 601 East Liberty PROF. HARRY LEVIN * . .discusses literature who wrote to their native audi- ence, but who were exiles in thought and in mind. 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. .4' By THOMAS HAYDEN At a time when speech is more Television can provide a "great important that it has ever been contribution" to American democ- in the past, Prof. H. Clay Harsh- racy, the chairman of the State barger said, television gives the University of Iowa speech depart- people an opportunity for critical ment claimed here yesterday. evaluation of public figures. Through the medium, Ameri- cans can "look searchingly into the faces of the speakers" and, separate the "good man speaking well from the bad man speaking well," Prof. Harshbarger declared. "If we believe in truth, Justice, and virtue, we must believe they will win out, and that the public We have a complete new selection of imported and domestic frames. 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