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Reading as a Kind of Exile

Summary/Abstract: The art of reading and retelling was a kind of silent struggle in almost all the concentration camps and prisons of the 20th century. That fact will always remind us that the literature has the power of fleeing and exile. The reading itself was, as the author of the paper said, „a ticket for a clandestine train that helps you to leave your own enslaved country“. This kind of emigration existed not only in the 20th century, but also over thousands of years, since the very beginning of this kind of art. On the other side, there is a kind of dictatorship and trying to abolish the freedom of reading and forcing the readers to accept only one book (or one unique pattern) as the only truth and absolute. The war against this kind of dictatorship marked the 20th century in the same way as the conventional wars led against them. The ideal of reading as a kind exile has developed into the idea of writing and creating of the piece of art. The reader and the writer are glorified in the same way and both of them are said to enjoy in the „hedonism of civilization“.

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