One of the most renowned German-Jewish emigrants, Lion Feuchtwanger (born in 1884), fled into exile in 1933, first to the south of France then to America, and remained till his death in December 1958 in Californian, an exile. His literary and journalistic work reflects the difficult situation of the exiled writer - in his essay Größe und Erbärmlichkeit des Exils published in Paris in 1939 and his novel Exil (1940), but also in the strongly autobiographical work Der Teufel in Frankreich (1940). He dwells in these works on the problematical status of "exterritoriality". With time the idea of a return to Europe became more unreal. Even as he got older he didn't manage to put down roots either in Sanary-sur-Mer or in Los-Angeles. He remained in the German and Jewish culture of his origins. He tried to stay a German writer all his life and didn't receive American citizenship. This doesn't mean he wanted to live as a "remigrant", but he wanted to live as a "world citizen, whose homeland shouldn't be a country, a state, a people, but the whole world." (J. Pischel). © Klincksieck. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.

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