Our research « Exile in Tomizza's work » analyses the author's production through the concept of exile which, as the main cause and subject of his writing, provides a coherent framework for reading it.Tomizza's work uses fiction as a means of investigating the conflicting components of the author's multiple identity that the Istrian exodus revealed and emphasized: Italianness vs Slavness, urbanism vs rurality, conservative family traditions vs progressive personal convictions.The recomposing of the author's narrative identity follows the course of a multiform writing that moves in three directions. The first one consists of the anamnesis of the collective dimension of the author's identity, represented by the fictional setting of the Istrian "piccolo mondo" before, during and after the exodus. From there, it moves on to novels and short stories of openly autobiographical inspiration. These are characterized by a self-analysis that expresses the individual and psychological tragedy of exile, particularly through oneiric writing. Lastly, the historical-documentary novels deepen the analysis of exile through the partial decentering from the object of investigation by which the author is transformed into investigator and judge of dramas similar to his own that affected the lives of other individuals.