{"product_id":"survive-9781646053049","title":"Survive","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50456204968210,"sku":"9781646053049","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_63ebba2f-37b9-4193-9c2e-a6a9104fe3d0.jpg?v=1729902037","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/survive-9781646053049","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}