The image of Munchen in Lion Feuchtwanger's novel "Exile"

The article deals with the role of Munchen in the space structure of Lion Feuchtwanger's novel "Exile" devoted to German emigrants. Analyzing various forms of the city's influence on the characters' life in exile the author comes to the conclusion that Munchen is a "female" ("motherly") space. Different kinds of the characters' relation to this motherly space are considered which vary from a wish to return there to a yearning for starting a new life outside the mother's womb. In the context of the main character's biography the image of Paris is analyzed as a substitution for the "female" city of Munchen.