thousands of years of hatred’ Causing The ‘great movement of peoples
that was to take place in the second half of the 20th century’, that V.S.
Naipaul spoke of in The Enigma of Arrival was, as Naipaul put it, ‘a movement
between all the continents’. It could no longer be confined to a single
paradigm (post-colonialism, internationalism, globalism, world literature). The
jet engine has probably had a greater impact than the internet. It brings a
Nigerian to New York, a Bosnian to Chicago, a Mexican to Berlin, an Australian
to London, a German to Manchester. It brought one of n+1’s founding editors,
Keith Gessen, as a little boy, from Russia to America in 1981, and now takes
him back and forth between those countries (a liberty unknown to émigrés like
Nabokov or Sergei Dovlatov)
The exile’s new world, logically enough, is unnatural, and its unreality
resembles fiction.’ He reminds us that Georg Lukács considered the novel the
great form of what Lukács called ‘transcendental homelessness’. I am not an
exile
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