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The anthropology of exile is the new field of research of the present with Europe becoming a fortress with high walls and gloomy gates through their very opening. The accommodation of the exiled is just an appearance, is a terrible joke, dimensioned by the camps' fences in which they are "housed". It is true, they can see the sea through these fences, but it has become a border rather than freedom. Caught in a purgatory space, migrants have no place to take refuge but into themselves, in that self-culturally and i...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the connection between existential philosophy and the literary work of particular authors. In the first part, it will focus on the work of Egon Hostovsky, who belongs to the typical representatives of existential prose. Due to his Jewish origin, Hostovsky was forced to stay in exile at the time of the occupation of Czechoslovakia, but he felt very dissatisfied and never came to terms with his destiny of the emigrant. His feelings became the basis for his existentially oriented ...