Drawing on texts by such familiar figures as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, and Brodsky, as well as less thoroughly examined figures, including Florensky, Shestov, Tertz, and Gendelev, Patterson moves beyond the political and geographical fact of exile to explore its spiritual, metaphysical, and linguistic aspects. By "exile" he means not only a form of punishment but an existential condition. Why does it happen? What does it mean? And how are we implicated? David Patterson responds to these and related questions by examining exile, a primary motif in Russian thought over the last century and a half. Refugees and fugitives, the disillusioned and disenfranchised grow in number every day.
No one in the modern world has been spared the encounter with homelessness.
Yet in modern life there is an experience common to all that threatens the very basis of community - the experience of exile. The life of a human community rests on common experience.
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