About Exile in a New Reception Grid

The paper approaches from a critical perspective a controversial study, Patria de hârtie/ The Paper Country, on the phenomenon of exile and on its reflection in the writing of three categories of exiles – ExPatriots, Expatriates and Ex-patriots, identifying textual markers of the symbolic position in regards to the imaginary country of origin and that of adoption. The project – innovative and meritorious in itself – raises, however, a series of questions regarding analysis perspectives – with an emotionally charged metalanguage as well as with positive/ negative reception choices that pre-determine the research and which are, as much as the strong points of the study, the object of this paper.