Exiled in Paradise by Anthony Heilbut

Exiled in Paradise by Anthony Heilbut

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

Anthony Heilbut received his Ph.D. in English from Harvard. He has taught at New York University and Hunter College, and is author of The Gospel Sound and Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature. He is also a record producer, specializing in gospel music, and has won both a Grammy Award and a Grand Prix du Disque.

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ISBN 13	9780670516612
ISBN 10	0670516619
Title	Exiled in Paradise
Author	Anthony Heilbut
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Viking Books
Year published	1983-05-26
Number of pages	506
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