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Article: A Season of Fear: The Blacklisted Teleplays Of Abraham Polonsky
- Article from:
- Literature/Film Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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A Season of Fear is Abraham Polonsky's metaphor for political repression. It is the title of his 1956 blacklist novel, which crystallizes the existential attitude that pervades his significant writings:
In today's world every man has the expectation of becoming a refugee. You can even be a refugee in your own country, or should I say especially in your own country? Well, a refugee can retain his dignity only by becoming an exile, a man who passionately struggles to return home, to overturn the government which has banished him or pursued him. A man must love his native land and refuse to give it up. (Polonsky 52)1
The author of these words, which were written from the perspective of an ...