Mahmood Falaki has written a column for the Bremen literature magazine entitled “No man's language of exile literature”. Here he summarizes in an emotional and poetic way the “four phases” of the exiled writers. He describes the second phase as follows:
In the "period of nostalgia’ there is certainty that you will have to stay in the host country. In a flood of memories, longing and homesickness are stronger than ever. A more beautiful past is imagined. Autobiographical stories emerge that deal with the past, in particular with the expulsion from the "paradise" of childhood. Like my novelthe shadows2 in which the first-person narrator tries to solve the mysterious murder of his uncle by using portrait photos of his eleventh to fifteenth year to create a mysterious connection to his own childhood.
"I became a child again:
Only on the wings of memory
one flees from foreignness.”
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