TY - GEN T1 - Exile : the sense of alienation in modern Russian letters A1 - Patterson, David, 1948- LA - English UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn950967343 AB - The life of a human community rests on common experience. Yet in modem life there is an experience common to all that threatens the very basis of community -- the experience of exile. No one in the modem world has been spared the encounter with homelessness. Refugees and fugitives, the disillusioned and disenfranchised grow in number every day. Why does it happen? What does it mean? And how are we implicated?David Patterson responds to these and related questions by examining exile, a primary motif in Russian thought over the last century and a half. By ""exile"" he means not only a form of pu. OP - 220 CN - PG3515 .P38 1995eb SN - 9780813158938 SN - 0813158931 SN - 0813170192 SN - 9780813170190 SN - 9780813118888 KW - Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. KW - Exiles' writings, Russian : History and criticism. KW - Russian literature : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature. KW - Littérature de l'exil russe : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature russe : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : Russian & Former Soviet Union. KW - Alienation (Social psychology) in literature KW - Exiles' writings, Russian KW - Russian literature KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -