Exile’s Return (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Malcolm Cowley
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Memoir/literary criticism
- Time of Work: The 1920’s
- Setting: Europe and the United States
- Principal Characters: Malcolm Cowley, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tristan Tzara, Harry Crosby
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Culture, Values, Tradition, Authors or writers, Exile or expatriates, Literature, Art or artists, 1920’s, Biography, Isolation
Form and Content
Exile’s Return is a work at once personal and historical. As the singular of its title suggests, it tells the story of one man, the author, whose “literary odyssey of the 1920’s” (as the subtitle of the 1951 revised edition puts it) is, however, less individual than representative—as representative in its own way as that of the era’s most famous Odysseus, Leopold Bloom, in James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). Cowley is, however, neither Bloom nor Ulysses/Odysseus. He is instead one of the “lost generation.” This phrase, coined by a...
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