EXILE AND IDENTITY IN LETTRES PARISIENNES. HISTOIRES D’EXIL BY NANCY HUSTON AND LEÏLA SEBBAR
EXILE AND IDENTITY IN LETTRES PARISIENNES. HISTOIRES D’EXIL BY NANCY HUSTON AND LEÏLA SEBBAR

Summary/Abstract: The correspondence between Nancy Huston and Leïla Sebbar, published as Lettres parisiennes. Histoires d’exil [Parisian letters. Histories of exile], describes the unique experience of crossing languages, cultures, and borders. The painful passage from one language to another, across geographical, cultural, and linguistic spaces may seem easy, but its consequences are manifold. The thirty letters are aimed at analysing the relationship between exile in language and the issue of the creator’s identity. By its very nature, exile proves to be a spiritual, linguistic, and geographical encounter in which one’s experiences encompass various forms and manifestations of being.

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