Ihab Hassan

"Men and women have flocked to America, fleeing or seeking, driven by the most diverse motives. But the psychological exile stands apart, his case shadier, thicker with complicity and silent intrigue. Who are these beings, full of dark conceits, rushing to meet the future while part of them still stumbles about, like a blind speleologist, in caverns of the past? What urgency speaks through their self-banishment?."

Out of Egypt. Scenes and Arguments of an Autobiography by Ihab Hassan
Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois, 1986
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