Survive

Frederika Amalia Finkelstein, Isabel Cout, Christopher Elson

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Deep Vellum Publishing
05 September 2024

Religious & spiritual fiction; Jewish studies

""I'm under twenty-five and I am unable to envision the future. I'm not the only one.""

A singular voice of the French ""Bataclan Generation""-those most acutely conscious of the terrorist attacks in the mid-2010s-grappling with issues of memory or post-memory, trauma, and survivors' dilemmas.

Survive is concerned with the work of grieving for strangers-a grief which does not begin or end, but is rather a structural part of one's being in the world. For Finkelstein, it is essential ""[t]o abide. Deep inside what is dying, in the midst of the bullets going astray and the offenses accumulating, in the midst of the misunderstandings imposed on a face other than my own, on a body other than my own...to build a world that thinks, a world that gives, a world that beats-a living world."" Survive situates contemporary youth in a violence-saturated present with which they are all too familiar, yet from which many of them feel alienated in a plurality of difficult-to-define ways.

Frederika Amalia Finkelstein cuts across national and cultural contexts, from French to Argentinian to North American, touching on the challenge facing her generation: to understand their own lives as uniquely meaningful in the face of unending mass suffering.

By: Frederika Amalia Finkelstein
Translated by: Isabel Cout, Christopher Elson
Imprint: Deep Vellum Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781646053049
ISBN 10: 1646053044
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 05 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Frederika Amalia Finkelstein is a French writer and author of two novels: Forgetting and Surviving. Upon its 2014 release in France, Forgetting was met with great critical success and has since been translated into multiple languages. Both have been published in English translation by Isabel Cout and Christopher Elson (Deep Vellum). Isabel Cout is a translator in Montreal, Quebec. Her research concerns literary works by third generation authors (grandchildren of Holocaust survivors) who write about having ambivalent relationships to the traumatic memory they've inherited. Christopher Elson has a background in Philosophy and French Studies and holds a doctorate in Contemporary Literature from Universit Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is a member of the Joint Faculty of the University of King's College and Dalhousie University. He is currently editor of Dalhousie French Studies and music columnist for the Dalhousie Review. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife Kate.

Reviews for Survive

"""Finkelstein favors the direct approach, a brutality of language and subject in order to confront the reader, sometimes to the point of discomfort, with the facts and often ambivalent feelings that they have provoked, in order to demonstrate violence."" —Le Monde"