Exile's Return

A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

Malcolm Cowley, Donald W. Faulkner

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English

Penguin Books Ltd
01 December 1994

Biography: general; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed ""the lost generation"", are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others ""escaped"" to Europe, as exiles.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

By: Malcolm Cowley
Introduction by: Donald W. Faulkner
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 323g
ISBN: 9780140187762
ISBN 10: 0140187766
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 December 1994
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mansions in the air; war in bohmemia; traveller's cheque; Paris pilgrimages; the death of Dada; the city of anger; the age of islands; echoes of a suicide.

Malcolm Cowley(1898-1989) a leadiing literary figure of his time, wrote numerous books of literary criticism, essays, and poetry.

Reviews for Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

A sort of literary history of the generation Gertrude Stein calls the lost generation - the men and women who should have taken their place in life between 1916 and 1922. Hemingway, Kay Boyle, E. E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, and many others are shown in their relation to the time and its effect upon them, from the literary standpoint rather than the personal and individual. A sort of March of Time account of the experiences these young hopefuls encountered, their thoughts, the struggles, their illusions, their disintegration through lack of fundamental convictions. There's a certain hysterical tempo in the telling, the material is ably handled; but the market is distinctly an intellectual one. (Kirkus Reviews)