Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America, from the 1930s to the Present

HEILBUT, Anthony

ISBN 10: 0670516619 / ISBN 13: 9780670516612

Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1983

About this Item

First edition. Small quarto. 506pp. Fine in a near very good dust jacket with a large internal tape repair. Malcolm Cowley's copy with his ownership Signature.

Seller Inventory # 564765

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America, from the 1930s to the Present
• Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0670516619
• ISBN 13: 9780670516612
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art / Illustration

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Synopsis

Recounts the backgrounds and transplanted lives of the poets, painters, novelists, filmmakers, scientists, historians, and philosophers who fled Nazi Germany for America, and discusses their changing attitudes toward the United States

From the Inside Flap

"The story of these refugees ha finally found its singular and single voice: it is that of Anthony Heilbut, himself the son of exiles. . . .His book turns into something more than a panorama about foreigner: it is a way of revealing to American themselves what their country really is like." --Ariel Dorfman, The Washington Post "Insightful, valuable and stimulating . . .For some readers, especially the children of generations of emigres, the book will provide a background to their most basic intellectual assumptions." --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times "Anthony Heilbut has exercised impressive scholarship, and even a touch of poetry, to get to the heart of this diaspora." --Time "From one page to the next, the book transcends its stated purpose of providing a link between the history of the German-Jewish immigrants and their staggering cultural achievements to acquire the dimensions of that mysterious reality which even a Bresson cannot hope to define: a work of art." --Marcel Ophuls, American Film Magazine
"I am struck by the rich, dense, solid quality of the work. It never falls into the anecdotal (which would have tempted a lesser historian) and, without sacrificing the individual and the individual groups, arrives nonetheless at an overall view of the drama of exile."—Marguerite Yourcenar