Literature of the Central European Migration of the Second Half of the 20th Century

In 1995, Sonja Hilzinger drew up a comparison between the people who fled into exile during the national/socialist period and the people who are currently recognized as migrants today. She studied principally the living conditions of both groups while affirming that her goal was not to compare them but instead her objective was to highlight the differences between them and underline the common points with a view to avoiding making the same errors that had been committed in the past (Hilizinger. 1995: 68, 70). In a similar manner, Henning Muller holds the same opinion: "that it is possible to draw a relationship between the experiences of people in the past and the voices of today" (Muller. 1994: 12). Starting from this approach we will attempt to take a deeper look at the concept of the "exiled person" and the "literature of exiled people". Our objective is to explore both the points of similarity as well as the divergences between what was once known as migration and the then called literature of migration or the literature of exiled people, its most recent physiognomy, and the way in which this evolution has been produced.