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Rezension zu Joseph P. Strelka: Des Odysseus Nachfahren: Österreichische Exilliteratur seit 1938. Tübingen, Basel (Francke) 1999 (= Edition Patmos; Bd. 1). 297 Seiten.
Der Verfasser legt hier ein Destillat seiner lebenslangen Beschäftigung mit dem Phänomen der Exilliteratur vor. Ausgangsbasis sind jetzt die Schriftsteller Österreichs. In sechzehn Kapiteln wird eine Landkarte der "Exilländer" erstellt.
There are many aspects of Haas' life and experiences in India which deserve greater attention. I would like to refer briefly only to his attempts as a litterateur to come to terms with 'India' as presented in his autobiographical recollection and to some comparative cultural reflections in his essays. Like all reconstructions his autobiographical recollection of India is also a construct in which the site of India as a place of exile is justified by an achieved awareness between conscious individual choice and inevitability. An individual acts out a personal history, the prefiguration of which he only becomes aware of in the form of a subsequent epiphanic realization. Given Haas' literary background, it is not surprising that this is articulated through a literary association.