ABSTRACT
Consideration of the notion of writing combined with the theme of exile has developed in time into an articulated typology of writers’ attitudes towards their own existential, social and literary uneasiness. In their treatment of the subject, literary critics have tended to discuss exile in two ways.1 First in its conventional meaning of actual expatriation - voluntary or involuntary - with reference to the related problems of language, translation and even contribution to the new cultures in which the writers find themselves; and, second, through an analysis of displacement - the condition of those writers who are exiles in their own countries, and who thus experience a sense of alienation at home.
