{"product_id":"survive-paperback-1","title":"Survive - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrederika Amalia Finkelstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIsabel Cout\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Elson\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I'm under twenty-five and I am unable to envision the future. I'm not the only one.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e​\u003ci\u003eSurvive\u003c\/i\u003e ​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.\" \u003ci\u003eSurvive\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrederika 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederika Amalia Finkelstein\u003c\/b\u003e is a French writer and author of two novels: \u003ci\u003eForgetting\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSurviving\u003c\/i\u003e. Upon its 2014 release in France, \u003ci\u003eForgetting\u003c\/i\u003e 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsabel Cout\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Elson\u003c\/b\u003e has a background in Philosophy and French Studies and holds a doctorate in Contemporary Literature from Université 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 \u003ci\u003eDalhousie French Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and music columnist for the \u003ci\u003eDalhousie Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife Kate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42726194577471,"sku":"9781646053049","price":21.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/43515ec94878228f114b1048f13e885f.webp?v=1765109643","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/survive-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}