International audienceGeorge Seferis : exiles and the sense of exileExile is plural in the life of Seferis, marked by forced displacements due to historical events (the Asia Minor catastrophe and World War II) and his diplomatic career. But the poet has a singular and complex relationship with exile. Indeed, the loss of his home and his native land has created an incurable malaise while his returns to Athens are always tinged with disappointment. However, from the Diary to the Poems, his experience of exile turns into a sense of exile, an essential exile, painful but nourishing. It supports a subject who is embarked on endless trips on dilapidated boats. In the position of an ordinary sailor, "I" disappears behind a collective "we", to say ...