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Did Vladimir Nabokov Write the Great Refugee Novel?
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Did Vladimir Nabokov Write the Great Refugee Novel?

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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How many seminal works of 20th century literature were created by refugees? Just judging by the Nobel laureates who were exiles from their homeland—a list that includes Thomas Mann, Elias Canetti, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Czesław Miłosz, and Joseph Brodsky—one might assume that themes of exile and homelessness permeated the moderni…

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