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House of Exile: War, Love and Literature from Berlin to Los Angeles by Evelyn Juers |
Focusing on the dislocated existence of the émigré and exile in all its forms, Juers combines serious historical research and inspired creative writing in this collective biography of a group of European intellectuals centred around Heinrich Mann and his brother Thomas, including Bertolt Brecht, James Joyce, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf, all connected by their temerity to go on writing under extremely difficult circumstances. Full of anecdotal details, it reads like a novel. Fascinating!
(Denise Lewis - bwl 75 Winter 2015 ) |
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