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And then, this anticipates my last points:
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Modernism is self-consciously international.
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In other words, it will look to international tradition
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and has as its ambition to be a culture not just for one nation
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but for many, maybe for all.
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It goes along with this eighth characteristic that's important:
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the artist is seen as a kind of spiritual exile,
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someone who is alienated from a home society and a home culture,
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whether or not he or she has actually left it,
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as Nabokov did.
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So this is what I mean by International High Modernism.
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You should add to this list of writers especially Faulkner and hemingway,