ABSTRACT
Poet Marjorie Agosín begins her essay by explaining how the theme of exile has been a constant in her life. Many of her Jewish ancestors had to flee to Chile from their homelands during the pogroms and the Holocaust. Later, during the Pinochet dictatorship, Agosín herself became an exile in the United States. Next in the essay, Agosín focuses on the exilic experiences of several Chilean authors whose narratives affected and informed her own experience as an exile. Agosín masterfully weaves together the personal and the literary, all the while highlighting the importance of storytelling to life itself.
